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
beautiful distance perspective
Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque through aerial distance!
successful goal too-late
It's never too late to be who you were meant to be.
imagination doubt fuel
The poverty of our imagination is no measure of say the world's resources. Our posterity will no doubt get fuel in ways that we are unable to devise for them.
death brother journey
It is a sad weakness in us, after all, that the thought of a person's death consecrates him or her anew to us. It is as if life were not sacred too, as if it were comparatively a small thing to fail in love and reverence to the brother or sister who has to climb the whole toilsome mountain with us. It seems as if all our tears and tenderness were due to the one who is spared that hard journey.
teach
Teach love, for that is what you are.
wrongdoing
We are rather apt to consider an act wrong because it is unpleasant to us.
death heart waiting
The tread Of coming footsteps cheats the midnight watcher Who holds her heart and waits to hear them pause, And hears them never pause, but pass and die.
wise book half
Wise books For half the truths they hold are honored tombs.
messengers messages
Music sweeps by me as a messenger - Carrying a message that is not for me
clothes everyday use
If we use common words on a great occasion, they are the more striking, because they are felt at once to have a particular meaning, like old banners, or everyday clothes, hung up in a sacred place.
home reputation ruined
"Abroad," that large home of ruined reputations.
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.
block men personality
But most of us are apt to settle within ourselves that the man who blocks our way is odious, and not to mind causing him a little of the disgust which his personality excites in ourselves.
stars sea sailor
I would not creep along the coast but steer Out in mid-sea, by guidance of the stars.