George Eliot

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry. ”

A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe. ”

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it. ”

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause. ”

Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other? ”

If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence. ”

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows. ”

I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence. ”

Excessive literary production is a social offense. ”

It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us. ”