George Eliot
George Eliot
Mary Ann Evans, known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She is the author of seven novels, including Adam Bede, The Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner, Felix Holt, the Radical, Middlemarch, and Daniel Deronda, most of them set in provincial England and known for their realism and psychological insight...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth22 November 1819
errors feels few fortune indulge liberty means mistakes naturally people persons quite small taking ugly whereas
Errors look so very ugly in persons of small means --one feels they are taking quite a liberty in going astray; whereas people of fortune may naturally indulge in a few delinquencies.
center common dissimilar feeling girl people understand
A toddling little girl is a center of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.
self-confidence people addresses
Self-confidence is apt to address itself to an imaginary dullness in others; as people who are well off speak in a cajoling tone to the poor.
sympathy people depth
Sympathetic people often don't communicate well, they back reflected images which hide their own depths.
christian pride people
How can one ever do anything nobly Christian, living among people with such petty thoughts?
thinking people neighbor
People are almost always better than their neighbors think they are.
people blameless
Blameless people are always the most exasperating.
names people littles
We have all got to exert ourselves a little to keep sane, and call things by the same names as other people call them by.
heart evil people
Her heart went out to him with a stronger movement than ever, at the thought that people would blame him. Maggie hated blame; she had been blamed her whole life, and nothing had come of it but evil tempers.
people might neighbor
Sane people did what their neighbors did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.
thinking long people
I would rather not be engaged. When people are engaged, they begin to think of being married soon, and I should like everything to go on for a long while just as it is.
hurt people made
Hurt, he'll never be hurt--he's made to hurt other people.
witty people literature
People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.
people speak enough
I am not magnanimous enough to like people who speak to me without seeming to see me