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
sympathy marriage relation
Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
women history historical
The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.
girl people feelings
A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.
appreciation time book
No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
spiritual country anger
There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
missing dresses relief
Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.
music middlemarch interrupted
It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted.
forgiveness too-much judgment
It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
education fathers-day teaching
Those who trust us educate us.
music effort goes-on
Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
success sports new-year
Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.
views perspective mind
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
struggle perfectly-good light
That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don't quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil -- widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower.
music thinking should-have
I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.