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.
people speak enough
I am not magnanimous enough to like people who speak to me without seeming to see me
thinking people growing
After all, people may really have in them some vocation which is not quite plain to themselves, may they not? They may seem idle and weak because they are growing. We should be very patient with each other, I think.
people charity way
I don't feel sure about doing good in any way now; everything seems like going on a mission to a people whose language I don't know.
thinking mad people
What people do who go into politics I can't think; it drives me almost mad to see mismanagement over only a few hundred acres.
art sky people
It is painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fine--something like being blind, while people talk of the sky.
people enough born
Some people are born to make life pretty, and others to grumble that it is not pretty enough.
writing people thanks
People who write finely must not expect to be left in repose; they will be molested with thanks, at least.
silly writing people
The worst service, I fancy, that anyone can do for truth, is to set silly people writing on its behalf.
distance eye people
People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes ...
people crow suspicion
Don't seem to he on the lookout for crows, else you'll set other people watching.
people bees impatient
Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
simple thinking people
Nature has the deep cunning which hides itself under the appearance of openness, so that simple people think they can see through her quite well, and all the while she is secretly preparing a refutation of their confident prophecies.