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
integrity mind elements
Consequences are unpitying. Our deeds carry their terrible consequences, quite apart from any fluctuations that went before—consequences that are hardly ever confined to ourselves. And it is best to fix our minds on that certainty, instead of considering what may be the elements of excuse for us.
wise lying reflection
Ah! but the moods lie in his nature, my boy, just as much as his reflections did, and more. A man can never do anything at variance with his own nature. He carries within him the germ of his most exceptional action; and if we wise people make eminent fools of ourselves on any particular occasion, we must endure the legitimate conclusion that we carry a few grains of folly to our ounce of wisdom.
hero circles hell
There is heroism even in the circles of hell for fellow-sinners who cling to each other in the fiery whirlwind and never recriminate.
writing genius
The words of genius have a wider meaning than the thought that prompted them.
husband men class
Husbands are an inferior class of men, who require keeping in order,
anger leaving tears
Anger seek it prey,-- Something to tear with sharp-edged tooth and claw, Like not to go off hungry, leaving Love To feast on milk and honeycomb at will.
pain anger men
A man deep-wounded may feel too much pain To feel much anger.
beauty language speak
Beauty is part of the finished language by which goodness speaks.
memories childhood sorrow
Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.
deception infidelity deceit
There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
sky earth dew
The dew-bead Gem of earth and sky begotten.
loyalty voice echoes
Mysterious haunts of echoes old and far, The voice divine of human loyalty.
girl believe weather
A girl of eighteen imagines the feelings behind the face that has moved her with its sympathetic youth as easily as primitive people imagined the humors of the gods in fair weather. What is she to believe in if not in this vision woven from within?
faults boots blame
There's folks 'ud stand on their heads and then say the fault was i' their boots.