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
limbs force form
Wit is a form of force that leaves the limbs at rest.
women flower singing
It seems to me as a woman's face doesna want flowers; it's almost like a flower itself.... It's like when a man's singing a good tune, you don't want t' hear bells tinkling and interfering wi' the sound.
women men be-good
I don't see how a man is to be good for much unless he has some one woman to love him dearly.
women accepting made
A woman's lot is made for her by the love she accepts.
women thinking hot-and-cold
It's a strange thing to think of a man as can lift a chair with his teeth, and walk fifty mile on end, trembling and turning hot and cold at only a look from one woman out of all the rest i' the world. It's a mystery we can give no account of.
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.