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
friendship happiness smile
Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
beautiful witty giving-up
It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
inspirational rain flower
It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
nature fall autumn
Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
beauty eggs hopeful
The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
spring first-love boys
How is it that the poets have said so many fine things about our first love, so few about our later love? Are their first poems their best? or are not those the best which come from their fuller thought, their larger experience, their deeper-rooted affections? The boy's flute-like voice has its own spring charm; but the man should yield a richer, deeper music.
time memories past
With memory set smarting like a reopened wound, a man's past is not simply a dead history, an outworn preparation of the present: it is not a repented error shaken loose from the life: it is a still quivering part of himself, bringing shudders and bitter flavors and the tinglings of a merited shame.
littles facts originality
One couldn't carry on life comfortably without a little blindness to the fact that everything has been said better than we can put it ourselves.
pain people literature
Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
stars night light
The darkest night that ever fell upon the earth never hid the light , never put out the stars . It only made the stars more keenly, kindly glancing, as if in protest against the darkness .
writing simple language-words
The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
ideas play acting
Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.
travel integrity journey
Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
ignorance literature hours
Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.