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George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans)

(1819 – 1880) An English novelist, poet, journalist and translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era, more well-known by her pen name George Eliot. She is the author of seven novels, most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight.

All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.

An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

Consequences are unpitying. Our deeds carry their terrible consequences, quite apart from any fluctuations that went before — consequences that are hardly ever confined to ourselves.

Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.

Every man who is not a monster, a mathematician, or a mad philosopher, is the slave of some woman or other.

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.