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George Eliot: The strongest principle...

George Eliot: The strongest principle...

The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.

Source: Daniel Deronda,...

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George Eliot: But human experience...

George Eliot: But human experience...

But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current...

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George Eliot: Children demand that...

George Eliot: Children demand that...

Children demand that their heroes should be fleckless, and easily believe them so . . .

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George Eliot: It is never...

George Eliot: It is never...

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

Source: In The World's Best...

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George Eliot: That's what a...

George Eliot: That's what a...

That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's...

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Jane Austen: I have been...

Jane Austen: I have been...

I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.

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Jane Austen: One of Edward's...

Jane Austen: One of Edward's...

One of Edward's Mistresses was Jane Shore, who has had a play written about her, but it is a tragedy and therefore not...

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George Eliot: If we had...

George Eliot: If we had...

If we had a keen vision and feeling it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we...

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George Eliot: Our deeds still...

George Eliot: Our deeds still...

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

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Jane Austen: Real solemn history,...

Jane Austen: Real solemn history,...

Real solemn history, I cannot be interested in . . . The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars or pestilences in...

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Jane Austen: You ought certainly...

Jane Austen: You ought certainly...

You ought certainly to forgive them, as a Christian, but never to admit them in your sight, or allow their names to be...

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Madeleine L'Engle: Be aware that...

Madeleine L'Engle: Be aware that...

Be aware that rigidity imprisons.

Source:
-- Madeleine L'Engle, (Nov 28...

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Katherine Paterson: Peace is not...

Katherine Paterson: Peace is not...

Peace is not won by those who fiercely guard their differences but by those who with open minds and hearts seek out...

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Estelle Ramey: Anyone seeing women...

Estelle Ramey: Anyone seeing women...

Anyone seeing women at a bargain-basement sale where aggression is viewed as appropriate, even endearing, sees...

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Helen Rowland: What a man...

Helen Rowland: What a man...

What a man calls his conscience is merely the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction after too much wine or...

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Helen Rowland: When a man...

Helen Rowland: When a man...

When a man spends his time giving his wife criticism and advice instead of compliments, he forgets that it was not his...

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Lady Marguerite Blessington: Wit lives in...

Lady Marguerite Blessington: Wit lives in...

Wit lives in the present, but genius survives the future.

Source: In And I Quote,...

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Lady Marguerite Blessington: Imagination, which is...

Lady Marguerite Blessington: Imagination, which is...

Imagination, which is the eldorado of the poet and of the novel-writer, often proves the most pernicious gift to the...

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Ann Oakley: Housework is work...

Ann Oakley: Housework is work...

Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

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Dorothy Parker: House Beautiful' is...

Dorothy Parker: House Beautiful' is...

'House Beautiful' is the play lousy.

Source: Theater review.
-- Dorothy Parker,...

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