Author Name

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.

Author : George Eliot

Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.

Author : George Eliot

Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.

Author : George Eliot

There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.

Author : George Eliot

No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.

Author : George Eliot

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.

Author : George Eliot

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

Author : George Eliot

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

Author : George Eliot

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.

Author : George Eliot

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

Author : George Eliot