Quotes about Author

In bitter manuscript remarks on other men's notions about solar deities, he had become indifferent to the sunlight.

Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?

She says, he is a great soul.—A great bladder for dried peas to rattle in!" said Mrs. Cadwallader.

character is not cut in marble—it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.

She disliked this cautious weighing of consequences, instead of an ardent faith in efforts of justice and mercy, which would conquer by their emotional force.

She controlled herself by the help of an inward defiance, and without other sign of emotion than this lip-paleness turned to her play. But Deronda's gaze seemed to have acted as an evil eye. Her stake was gone.

A man's mind—what there is of it—has always the advantage of being masculine,—as the smallest birch-tree is of a higher kind than the most soaring palm,—and even his ignorance is of a sounder quality.

From what you know of her, you will not be surprised that she threw some exaggeration and wilfulness, some pride and impetuosity, even into her self-renunciation; her own life was still a drama for her, in which she demanded of herself that her part should be played with intensity.

The Mill on the Floss was first published in three volumes in 1860 by William Blackwood and Sons of Edinburgh and London, while the first American edition was published by Thomas Y. Crowell Co, of New York. The work is considered to be Eliot's most autobiographical novel and her long time partner George Lewes reported that the process of writing the conclusion to such a personal tale caused her great emotional distress.

Our deeds travel with us from afar, And what we have been makes us what we are.

I have visited Japan several times and have always been shown wonderful hospitality.

I am amazed at the wonders of technology and am grateful for the ways in which we are able to use it to share the Gospel around the world.