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
self stupidity world
We are all of us born in moral stupidity, taking the world as an udder to feed our supreme selves
air stupidity opinion
If you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge. You make it your own in uttering it, and naturally get fond of it.
women stupid ems
I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.
stupidity social unendurable
To most mortals there is a stupidity which is unendurable and a stupidity which is altogether acceptable - else, indeed, what would become of social bonds?
stupid believe towns
... one always believes one's own town to be more stupid than any other.
clever stupidity pigeons
It always seemed to me a sort of clever stupidity only to have one sort of talent - like a carrier pigeon.
stupid book stuff
It had already occurred to him that books were stuff, and that life was stupid.
stupid sarcasm blow
Blows are sarcasms turned stupid.
stupid compassion people
These fellow-mortals, every one, must be accepted as they are: you can neither straighten their noses, nor brighten their wit, nor rectify their dispositions; and it is these people-amongst whom your life is passed-that it is needful you should tolerate, pity, and love: it is these more or less ugly, stupid, inconsistent people whose movements of goodness you should be able to admire-for whom you should cherish all possible hopes, all possible patience.
beyond british-author large realm silence
I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave.
duty finding happiness impressed
I'm more and more impressed with the duty of finding happiness
almighty denying god match men-and-women women
I'm not denying the women are foolish: God almighty made 'em to match the men
almighty british-author denying god match women
I'm not denying that women are foolish: God almighty made 'em to match the men.
again choir dead immortal invisible join minds oh
Oh may I join the choir invisible / Of those immortal dead who live again / In minds made better by their presence.