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
wine beer knowing
There's truth in wine, and there may be some in gin and muddy beer; but whether it's truth worth my knowing, is another question.
limbs force form
Wit is a form of force that leaves the limbs at rest.
hate work pride
I can't abide to see men throw away their tools i' that way, the minute the clock begins to strike, as if they took no pleasure i' their work, and was afraid o' doing a stroke too much.... I hate to see a man's arms drop down as if he was shot, before the clock's fairly struck, just as if he'd never a bit o' pride and delight in's work. The very grindstone 'ull go on turning a bit after you loose it.
religious powerful growth
Fatally powerful as religious systems have been, human nature is stronger and wider, and though dogmas may hamper they cannot absolutely repress its growth.
belief
Better a false belief than no belief at all.
leadership command
He who rules must fully humor as much as he commands.
wine vinegar sun
Wine and the sun will make vinegar without any shouting to help them.
enemy harder niceties
Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
trying distrust difficult
It is difficult for woman to try to be anything good when she is not believed in.
disappointment suffering faithfulness
But faithfulness can feed on suffering, And knows no disappointment.
friendship believe eye
It is hard to believe long together that anything is "worth while," unless there is some eye to kindle in common with our own, some brief word uttered now and then to imply that what is infinitely precious to us is precious alike to another mind.
genius turns steady
Steady work turns genius to a loom.
human-nature exception humans
In so complex a thing as human nature, we must consider it is hard to find rules without exception.
music law echoes
Though I am not endowed with an ear to seize those earthly harmonies, which to some devout souls have seemed, as it were, the broken echoes of the heavenly choir--I apprehend that there is a law in music, disobedience whereunto would bring us in our singing to the level of shrieking maniacs or howling beasts.