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
determined life private public wider
There is no private life which is not determined by a wider public life
breeds cases climb hatred inflict injuries injury
There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds -- not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but -- a hatred of all injury.
knack anticipation estates
I have a knack of hoping, which is as good as an estate...
patterns conscience
Our consciences are not all of the same pattern.
vanishing causes fit
To superficial observers his chin had too vanishing an aspect, looking as if it were being gradually reabsorbed. And it did indeed cause him some difficulty about the fit of his satin stocks, for which chins were at that time useful.
stranger wit
The wit of a family is usually best received among strangers.
handsome may lovable
But, bless us, things may be lovable that are not altogether handsome, I hope?
tone unexpected persons
Susceptible persons are more affected by a change of tone that by unexpected words.