Thursday, May 08, 2008

Literary Jewels of George Eliot

Mary Ann (Marian) Evans (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880), better known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist. She was one of the leading writers of the Victorian era.
Here I would like to quote some of George Eliot’s best quotations:
“Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms. “

“Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.”

“It’s never too late to be who you might have been.”

“Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand. “

“There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.”

“The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.”

Her epitaph reads:
"Of those immortal dead who live again,
In minds made better by their presence."
Here rests the body of GEORGE ELIOT. (MARY ANN CROSS).

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