Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections. George Eliot on great
Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline. George Eliot on great
The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions. George Eliot on happiness
Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it. George Eliot on happiness
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. George Eliot on happiness
You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know. George Eliot on history
Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar. George Eliot on history
The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history. George Eliot on history
I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out. George Eliot on home
There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope. George Eliot on hope
But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope. George Eliot on hope
Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart. George Eliot on jealousy
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love. George Eliot on jealousy
There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism. George Eliot on jealousy
Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down. George Eliot on knowledge
Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face. George Eliot on life
I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved. George Eliot on love
Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another. George Eliot on love
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love. George Eliot on love
Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty. George Eliot on love