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
thinking literature murder
Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.
friends thinking fiber
It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.
running garden thinking
...there's never a garden in all the parish but what there's endless waste in it for want o' somebody as could use everything up. It's what I think to myself sometimes, as there need nobody run short o' victuals if the land was made the most on, and there was never a morsel but what could find it's way to a mouth.
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.
thinking america might
... we are apt to think it the finest era of the world when America was beginning to be discovered, when a bold sailor, even if he were wrecked, might alight on a new kingdom ...
drama thinking done
When we are young we think our troubles a mighty business - that the world is spread out expressly as a stage for the particular drama of our lives and that we have a right to rant and foam at the mouth if we are crossed. I have done enough of that in my time.
thinking hardship pretending
I think any hardship is better than pretending to do what one is paid for, and never really doing it.
thinking guilt grit
Solomon's Proverbs, I think, have omitted to say, that as the sore palate findeth grit, so an uneasy consciousness heareth innuendos.
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.
animal thinking may
When the animals entered the Ark in pairs, one may imagine that allied species made much private remark on each other, and were tempted to think that so many forms feeding on the same store of fodder were eminently superfluous, as tending to diminish the rations.
thinking common imagine
A common fallacy: to imagine a measure will be easy because we have private motives for desiring it.
children thinking chance
A bachelor's children are always young: they're immortal children - always lisping, waddling, helpless, and with a chance of turning out good.
writing thinking interesting
I have no courage to write much unless I am written to. I soon begin to think that there are plenty of other correspondents more interesting - so if you all want to hear from me you know the conditions.
running thinking entitlement
You youngsters nowadays think you're to begin with living well and working easy; you've no notion of running afoot before you get on horseback.