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
religious lying religion
I care only to know, if possible, the lasting meaning that lies in all religious doctrine from the beginning till now.
memories water littles
To an old memory like mine the present days are but as a little water poured on the deep.
memories facts sometimes
Memory, when duly impregnated with ascertained facts, is sometimes surprisingly fertile.
memories mind cobwebs
Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
truth half dull
It is the way with half the truth amidst which we live, that it only haunts us and makes dull pulsations that are never born into sound.
truth disposition colour
The very truth hath a colour from the disposition of the utterer.
our-thoughts
Our thoughts are often worse than we are.
spiritual shoes feet
The sense of an entailed disadvantage - the deformed foot doubtfully hidden by the shoe, makes a restlessly active spiritual yeast, and easily turns a self-centered, unloving nature into an Ishmaelite.
disappointment lying forever
You know nothing about Hope, that immortal, delicious maiden forever courted forever propitious, whom fools have called deceitful, as if it were Hope that carried the cup of disappointment, whereas it is her deadly enemy, Certainty, whom she only es
kindness home thoughtful
He was one of those men, and they are not the commonest, of whom we can know the best only by following them away from the marketplace, the platform, and the pulpit, entering with them into their own homes, hearing the voice with which they speak to the young and aged about their own hearthstone, and witnessing their thoughtful care for the everyday wants of everyday companions, who take all their kindness as a matter of course, and not as a subject for panegyric.
pride self satisfaction
One's self-satisfaction is an untaxed kind of property which it is very unpleasant to find deprecated.
ignorance may pills
Ignorance is not so damnable as humbug, but when it prescribes pills it may happen to do more harm.
ignorance fighting fog
It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
wise believe fire
Perhaps his might be one of the natures where a wise estimate of consequences is fused in the fires of that passionate belief which determines the consequences it believes in.