An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.

— George Eliot

And certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we are so fond of it.

— George Eliot

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

— George Eliot

An eminent philosopher among my friends, who can dignify even your ugly furniture by lifting it into the serene light of science, has shown me this pregnant little fact. Your pier glass or extensive surface of polished steel made to be rubbed by a housemaid, will be minutely and multitudinous scratched in all directions; but place now against it a lighted candle as a center of illumination, and lo! The scratches will seem to arrange themselves in a fine series of concentric circles round that little sun. It is demonstrable that the scratches are going everywhere impartially, and it is only your candle which produces the flattering illusion of concentric arrangement, its light falling with an exclusive optical selection. These things are a parable. The scratches are events, the candle is the egoism of any party now absent.

— George Eliot

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

— George Eliot

Animals are such agreeable friends they ask no questions pass no criticisms.

— George Eliot

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions they pass no criticisms.

— George Eliot

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions they pass no criticisms.

— George Eliot

Animals are such agreeable friends-they ask no questions they pass no criticisms.

— George Eliot

Animals are such agreeable friends―they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.

— George Eliot