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 law echoes
Though I am not endowed with an ear to seize those earthly harmonies, which to some devout souls have seemed, as it were, the broken echoes of the heavenly choir--I apprehend that there is a law in music, disobedience whereunto would bring us in our singing to the level of shrieking maniacs or howling beasts.
memories mood temper
The memory has as many moods as the temper, and shifts its scenery like a diorama.
people bees impatient
Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
human-nature exception humans
In so complex a thing as human nature, we must consider it is hard to find rules without exception.
girl stones handsome
When one is five-and-twenty, one has not chalk-stones at one's finger-ends that the touch of a handsome girl should be entirely indifferent.
genius turns steady
Steady work turns genius to a loom.
friendship believe eye
It is hard to believe long together that anything is "worth while," unless there is some eye to kindle in common with our own, some brief word uttered now and then to imply that what is infinitely precious to us is precious alike to another mind.
dream men vision
Those old stories of visions and dreams guiding men have their truth; we are saved by making the future present to ourselves.
thinking smell rose
I think I am quite wicked with roses. I like to gather them, and smell them till they have no scent left.
disappointment suffering faithfulness
But faithfulness can feed on suffering, And knows no disappointment.
thinking understanding experience
I think there are stores laid up in our human nature that our understandings can make no complete inventory of.
men duty
Man cannot choose his duties.