George Eliot Quotes
But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
Eliot, George. Middlemarch. William Blackwood and Sons, 1871-1872.
This is one of the proverbs of King Solomon of the Jews, son of King David.
Scientists often have worked on something for years without success and when it finally comes, the emotion is overwhelming.
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 wrote seven novels, Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Romola (1862–63), Felix Holt, the Radical (1866), Middlemarch (1871–72) and Daniel Deronda (1876). Like Charles Dickens and Thomas Hardy, she emerged from provincial England and most of her works are set there. They are known for their realism, psychological insight, sense of place and detailed depiction of the countryside.
