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
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.
ignorance common hours
It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.
new-beginnings men finding-yourself
One can begin so many things with a new person! - even begin to be a better man.
father son giving
It's a father's duty to give his sons a fine chance.
witty pride vanity
Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty.
tired people way
It is very difficult to be learned; it seems as if people were worn out on the way to great thoughts, and can never enjoy them because they are too tired.
conceited thinking people
I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.
burning brightness saws
When God makes His presence felt through us, we are like the burning bush: Moses never took any heed what sort of bush it was—he only saw the brightness of the Lord.
memories past men
In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or to smoke, he has a present which offers some resistance to the past—sensations which assert themselves against tyrannous memories.
positive integrity thinking
Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
best-friend friendship relationship
Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
food meals
One can say everything best over a meal.
marriage silence enough
I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave.
sad grief wrestling
She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.