George Eliot

“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.”

“But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.”

“Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.”

“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.”

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

“Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.”

“Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.”

“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.”

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

“Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.”

“And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.”

“Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.”

“Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.”

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

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”