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
death dying literature
Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
mothers-day mom parenting
Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.
family children littles
Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.
happiness inspiring perseverance
Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.
relationship jealousy heart
Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.
hope pain live-life
But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
hope learning sadness
There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
success congratulations men
The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.
moving past rome
Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
perseverance fear failure
I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.
order play quality
Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.
hands soul feelings
To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern, that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel, that discernment is but a hand playing with finely-ordered variety on the chords of emotion--a soul in which knowledge passes instantaneously into feeling, and feeling flashes back as a new organ of knowledge.
rivers waiting feelings
Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty — it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it.
pregnancy trying childbirth
I like trying to get pregnant. I'm not so sure about childbirth.