George Eliot

Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult. ”

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved. ”

All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other. ”

Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends? ”

You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl. ”

It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal. ”

I like trying to get pregnant. I'm not so sure about childbirth. ”

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down. ”

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. ”

For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love. ”