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
girl men imagination
You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl.
literature parting
In every parting there is an image of death.
expression literature indifference
No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference.
life spiritual excellence
Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.
funny women humor
A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
ego doe belief
The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief.
strength strong women
And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.
kindness ignorant would-be
Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.
women stupid ems
I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.
jealousy passion fire
There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.
life literature compunction
The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.
opportunity politics vices
Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.
inspirational life friendship
The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
lonely loneliness being-alone
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?