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
activity falls grief intelligence-and-intellectuals life serene struggle supremacy understand worldly
Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life can understand the grief of one who falls from that serene activity into the absorbing soul-wasting struggle with worldly annoyances.
heaven world
So to live is heaven; to make undying music in the world.
dinner furniture world
... in no part of the world is genteel visiting founded on esteem, in the absence of suitable furniture and complete dinner-service.
rome world wanted
In Rome it seems as if there were so many things which are more wanted in the world than pictures.
men world suits
You are discontented with the world because you can't get just the small things that suit your pleasure, not because it's a world where myriads of men and women are ground by wrong and misery, and tainted with pollution.
mistake men world
autobiography at least saves a man or woman that the world is curious about from the publication of a string of mistakes called 'Memoirs.
hypocrisy atheism world
I could not without vile hypocrisy and a miserable truckling to the smile of the world ... profess to join in worship which I wholly disapprove.
believe world belief
We are all apt to believe what the world believes about us.
world fingers puzzling
This is a puzzling world, and Old Harry's got a finger in it.
demand world fine
It was not that she was out of temper, but that the world was not equal to the demands of her fine organism.
music world invisible
So shall I join the choir invisible Whose music is the gladness of the world.
poverty world misery
It is seldom that the miserable of the world can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable.
our-world discovery facts
We are all humiliated by the sudden discovery of a fact which has existed very comfortably and perhaps been staring at us in private while we have been making up our world entirely without it.
self stupidity world
We are all of us born in moral stupidity, taking the world as an udder to feed our supreme selves