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George Eliot: In all private...

George Eliot: In all private...

In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.

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George Eliot: Certainly, the mistakes...

George Eliot: Certainly, the mistakes...

Certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder...

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George Eliot: Is it not...

George Eliot: Is it not...

Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and...

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George Eliot: Our virtues are...

George Eliot: Our virtues are...

Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children. All profound...

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George Eliot: There is no...

George Eliot: There is no...

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not...

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George Eliot: But most of...

George Eliot: But most of...

But most of us are apt to settle within ourselves that the man who blocks our way is odious, and not to mind causing...

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George Eliot: It always remains...

George Eliot: It always remains...

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

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George Eliot: Failure after long...

George Eliot: Failure after long...

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a...

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Jane Austen: She was nothing...

Jane Austen: She was nothing...

She was nothing more than a mere good-tempered, civil and obliging young woman; as such we could scarcely dislike her...

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Helen Hunt Jackson: Oh, write of...

Helen Hunt Jackson: Oh, write of...

Oh, write of me, not Died in bitter pains,
But Emigrated to another star!


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Rita Mae Brown: I believe all...

Rita Mae Brown: I believe all...

I believe all literature started as gossip.

Source: Starting From Scratch/...

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Harriet Beecher Stowe: The bitterest tears...

Harriet Beecher Stowe: The bitterest tears...

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

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Daisy Ashford: Let us now...

Daisy Ashford: Let us now...

Let us now bask under the spreading trees said Bernard in a passionate tone. Oh yes lets said Ethel and she opened her...

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Madeleine L'Engle: We have much...

Madeleine L'Engle: We have much...

We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of...

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George Eliot: To act with...

George Eliot: To act with...

To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved...

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Annie Dillard: The dedicated life...

Annie Dillard: The dedicated life...

The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.

Source:...

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Mary Wortley Montagu: Satire should, like...

Mary Wortley Montagu: Satire should, like...

Satire should, like a polished razor keen,
Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or...

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Mary Wortley Montagu: It is eleven...

Mary Wortley Montagu: It is eleven...

It is eleven years since I have seen my figure in a glass. The last reflection I saw there was so disagreeable, I...

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Louisa May Alcott: Life is my...

Louisa May Alcott: Life is my...

Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors!

Source: In The...

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George Eliot: When one wanted...

George Eliot: When one wanted...

When one wanted one's interests looking after whatever the cost, it was not so well for a lawyer to be over honest,...

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