George Eliot Quotes
Pity that consequences are determined not by excuses but by actions!
Eliot, George. Adam Bede. Vol. 1, William Blackwood and Sons, 1859, p. 288.
Commenting on her husband, Steve Jobs, not signing the the Giving Pledge, the organization started by Warren E. Buffett and Bill Gates to persuade the country’s richest families to vow to give away at least half of their fortunes.
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.