Evans was among the leading authors of the Victorian period. She was the writer of seven stories, amongst them was Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Middlemarch (1871-1872) and also Daniel Deronda (1876). The majority of her jobs are included in the provincial England as well as she is understood for their realism and also mental insight in her literary works. Evans published his publications under a male pseudonym to make certain that her works were taken seriously. Female authors usually published books under his very own name right now, but Evans wished to leave the stereotype that women just create gay romances. A further consider her use of a pseudonym may have a been a desire to shield her private life from public analysis and also gossip.
Our collection contains 101 quotes who is written / told by George, under the main topics: Pet - Anger - Dad.
"Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact"
"But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy"
"Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them"
"All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation"
"Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas"
"Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things"
"Hobbies are apt to run away with us, you know; it doesn't do to be run away with. We must keep the reins"
"I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out"
"I like trying to get pregnant. I'm not so sure about childbirth"
"Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult"
"Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure"
"Excessive literary production is a social offense"
"Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world"
"Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster"
"Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections"
"Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns"
"Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet"
"Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity"
"Consequences are unpitying"
"Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course"
"But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope"
"But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with"
"Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down"
"Hostesses who entertain much must make up their parties as ministers make up their cabinets, on grounds other than personal liking"
"He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow"
"We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves"
"Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress"
"Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline"
"What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?"
"I desire no future that will break the ties with the past"
"It is never too late to be what you might have been"
"No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters"
"No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty"
"No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from"
"No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference"
"Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder"
"More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us"
"Might, could, would - they are contemptible auxiliaries"
"Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest"
"Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty"
"Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face"
"In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause"
"In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations"
"In every parting there is an image of death"
"In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness"
"Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness"
"If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence"
"I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best"
"I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men"
"The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another"
