Love seeketh not itself to please, Nor for itself hath any care But for another gives its ease And builds a heaven in hell’s despair Love seeketh only self to please, To bind another to its delight, J...
Looking at the mother, you might hope that the daughter would become like her, which is a prospective advantage equal to a dowry—the mother too often standing behind the daughter like a malignant prop...
Let any lady who is inclined to be hard on Mrs. Cadwallader inquire into the comprehensiveness of her own beautiful views and be quite sure that they afford accommodation for all the lives which have...
It is curious what patches of hardness and tenderness lie side by side in men’s dispositions. I suppose he has some test by which he finds out whom Heaven cares for.
It is better - it shall be better with me because I have known you.
It had never occurred to him that he should live in any other than what he would have called an ordinary way, with green glasses for hock, and excellent waiting at table. In warming himself at French...
I don't mean your resentment toward them, said Philip... I mean your extending the enmity to a helpless girl, who has too much sense and goodness to share their narrow prejudices. She has never entere...
He was unique to her among men because he’s impressed her as being not her admirer her superior. In some mysterious way he was becoming a part of her conscience as one woman who’s nature is an object...
He has got no good red blood in his body, said Sir James.
He has got no good red blood in his body, said Sir James. No. Somebody put a drop under a magnifying-glass and it was all semicolons and parentheses, said Mrs. Cadwallader.
Explain! Tell a man to explain how he dropped into hell! Explain my preference! I never had a for her, any more than I have a preference for breathing. No other woman exists by the side of her. I wou...
Described by Harold Bloom as the beginning of the end of the traditional novel of social morality (xii), George Eliot's Middlemarch is nonetheless replete with a kind of authorial intervention that mo...
But it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
But a good wife—a good unworldly woman—may really help a man, and keep him more independent.
As to his religious notions—why, as Voltaire said, incantations will destroy a flock of sheep if administered with a certain quantity of arsenic. I look for the man who will bring the arsenic, and don...
Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.
She was no longer wresting with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.
When a man is happy enough to win the affections of a sweet girl, who can soothe his cares with crochet, and respond to all his most cherished ideas with beaded urn-rugs and chair-covers in German woo...
Poor fellow! I think he is in love with you.'I am not aware of it. And to me it is one of the most odious things in a girl's life, that there must always be some supposition of falling in love coming...
We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.