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
love-you pride thinking
You must love your work, and not be always looking over the edge of it, wanting your play to begin. And the other is, you must not be ashamed of your work, and think it would be more honorable to you to be doing something else. You must have a pride in your own work and in learning to do it well.
caring men feelings
It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures. We can only have the highest happiness such as goes along with being a great man, by having wide thoughts and much feeling for the rest of the world as well as ourselves.
silly men unhappy
Habit is the beneficent harness of routine which enables silly men to live respectfully and unhappy men to live calmly
judging judgement
Hear Everything and judge for yourself
christmas fashion hair
Fine old Christmas, with the snowy hair and ruddy face, had done his duty that year in the noblest fashion, and had set off his rich gifts of warmth and color with all the heightening contrast of frost and snow.
moving years soul
For years after Lydgate remembered the impression produced in him by this involuntary appeal-this cry from soul to soul, without other consciousness than their moving with kindred natures in the same embroiled medium, the same troublous fitfully-illuminated life.
stupid book stuff
It had already occurred to him that books were stuff, and that life was stupid.
knack anticipation estates
I have a knack of hoping, which is as good as an estate...
anticipation joyful
Go forward with joyful confidence.
philosophy women facts
Plain women he regarded as he did the other severe facts of life, to be faced with philosophy and investigated by science.
blessing sake obedience
It is a vain thought to flee from the work that God appoints us, for the sake of finding a greater blessing, instead of seeking it where alone it is to be found - in loving obedience.
opportunity men use
What is opportunity to the man who cant use it?
nature fall autumn
Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.
opportunity thinking long
It's them as take advantage that get advantage I' this world, I think: folks have to wait long enough afore it's brought to 'em.