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
archer perfect deer
Things are achieved when they are well begun. The perfect archer calls the deer his own While yet the shaft is whistling.
honesty attitude spring
The purifying influence of public confession springs from the fact, that by it the hope in lies is forever swept away, and the soul recovers the noble attitude of simplicity.
patterns conscience
Our consciences are not all of the same pattern.
vanishing causes fit
To superficial observers his chin had too vanishing an aspect, looking as if it were being gradually reabsorbed. And it did indeed cause him some difficulty about the fit of his satin stocks, for which chins were at that time useful.
venting emotion easier
[It is easier] to quell emotion than to incur the consequences of venting it.
stranger wit
The wit of a family is usually best received among strangers.
baptism conscious consecration
There are natures in which, if they love us, we are conscious of having a sort of baptism and consecration.
handsome may lovable
But, bless us, things may be lovable that are not altogether handsome, I hope?
coarse subtle impression
Subtle impressions for which words are quite too coarse a medium.
time years littles
It's but little good you'll do a-watering the last year's crops
time men numbers
In the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as the tie of their cravats, there is always a good number who once meant to shape their own deeds and alter the world a little.
time spring flower
We could never have loved the earth so well if we had no childhood in it if it were not the earth where the same flowers come up again every spring that we used to gather with our tiny fingers as we sat lisping to ourselves on the grass . . .
honesty people cost
When one wanted one's interests looking after whatever the cost, it was not so well for a lawyer to be over honest, else he might not be up to other people's tricks.
tone unexpected persons
Susceptible persons are more affected by a change of tone that by unexpected words.