George Eliot

Birth: 1819-11-22 , Nuneaton

Death: 1880-12-22 , Londres

George Eliot is the pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans, a prominent English novelist of the Victorian era. Eliot is celebrated for her profound psychological insight, moral complexity, and realistic portrayal of English provincial life. Her works often explore themes of morality, religion, determinism, and the position of women in society.

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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

I’ve never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

There are many victories worse than a defeat.

Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty — it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it.

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses, we must plant more roses.

It’s them as take advantage that get advantage in this world.

It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures. We can only have the highest happiness such as goes along with being a great man, by having wide thoughts and much feeling for the rest of the world as well as ourselves.

No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.

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Mary Ann Evans (1819-1880), writing under the pseudonym George Eliot, was one of the most influential literary figures of the 19th century. Born in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, she challenged the social conventions of her time by pursuing a literary career, which was unusual for women. Her relationship with the philosopher George Henry Lewes, with whom she lived without marrying, was also considered scandalous. Eliot is known for novels such as "Middlemarch", "The Mill on the Floss", and "Silas Marner". Her works are notable for their psychological introspection, exploration of moral and social dilemmas, and rich, scholarly prose. "Middlemarch" is often cited as one of the greatest English-language novels, admired for its broad cast of characters and its depiction of life in an English provincial town. Eliot died in London in 1880 at the age of 60.