You are a good young man," she said. "But I do not like husbands. I will never have another. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Has any one ever pinched into its pilulous smallness the cobweb of pre-matrimonial acquaintanceship?” — George Eliot Copy Share Image
In the ages since Adam's marriage, it has been good for some men to be alone, and for some women also. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
... happy husbands and wives can hear each other say the same thing over and over again without being tired. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“I should never like scolding any one else so well; and that is a point to be thought of in a husband.” — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“But a good wife—a good unworldly woman—may really help a man, and keep him more independent.” — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Having once embarked on your marital voyage, it is impossible not to be aware that you make no way and the sea… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
When a man has seen the woman whom he would have chosen if he had intended to marry speedily, his remaining a… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“One morning, some weeks after her arrival at Lowick, Dorothea - but why always Dorothea? Was her point of view the only… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I would rather not be engaged. When people are engaged, they begin to think of being married soon, and I should like… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“I know the way o' wives; they set one on to abuse their husbands, and then they turn round on one and… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There are answers which, in turning away wrath, only send it to the other end of the room, and to have a… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Before marriage she had completely mastered my imagination, for she was a secret to me; and I created the unknown thought before… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
When I married Humphrey I made up my mind to like sermons, and I set out by liking the end very much.… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“She felt sure that she would have accepted the judicious Hooker, if she had been born in time to save him from… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“... she took her husband's jokes and joviality as patiently as everything else, considering that "men would be so", and viewing the… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“…whatever else remained the same, the light had changed, and you cannot find the pearly dawn at noonday. The fact is unalterable,… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“A bride and bridegroom, surrounded by all the appliances of wealth, hurried through the day by the whirl of society, filling their… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
That quiet mutual gaze of a trusting husband and wife is like the first moment of rest or refuge from a great… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Society never made the preposterous demand that a man should think as much about his own qualifications for making a charming girl… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“It was too intolerable that Dorothea should be worshiping this husband: such weakness in a woman is pleasant to no man but… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Society never made the preposterous demand that a man should think as much about his own qualifications for making a charming girl… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Dorothea, with all her eagerness to know the truths of life, retained very childlike ideas about marriage. She felt sure that she… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“goodness tries to get the upper hand in us whenever it seems to have the slightest chance—on Sunday mornings, perhaps, when we… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There comes a terrible moment to many souls when the great movements of the world, the larger destinies of mankind, which have… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“In general, one may be sure that whenever a marriage of any mark takes place, male acquaintances are likely to pity the… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Mrs. Tulliver had lived thirteen years with her husband, yet she retained in all the freshness of her early married life a… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I suppose it was that in courtship everything is regarded as provisional and preliminary, and the smallest sample of virtue or accomplishment… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“She locked herself in her room. She needed time to get used to her maimed consciousness, her poor lopped life, before she… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“She was always trying to be what her husband wished, and never able to repose on his delight in what she was.” — George Eliot Copy Share Image
That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“The really delightful marriage must be that where your husband was a sort of father, and could teach you even Hebrew, if… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Mrs. Tulliver, as we have seen, was not without influence over her husband. No woman is; she can always incline him to… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The early months of marriage often are times of critical tumult,--whether that of a shrimp pool or of deeper water,--which afterwards subside… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles. — George Eliot Copy Share
But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on… — George Eliot Copy Share
Scepticismcan never be thoroughly applied, else life would come to a standstill. — George Eliot Copy Share
Under every guilty secret there is hidden a brood of guilty wishes, whose unwholesome infecting life is cherished by the darkness. — George Eliot Copy Share
The most powerful movement of feeling with a liturgy is the prayer which seeks for nothing special, but is a yearning to escape from… — George Eliot Copy Share
“[W]e must learn to accommodate ourselves to the discovery that some of those cunningly-fashioned instruments called human souls have only a very limited range… — George Eliot Copy Share
“Mr. Casaubon had never had a strong bodily frame, and his soul was sensitive without being enthusiastic: it was too languid to thrill out… — George Eliot Copy Share
“... she took her husband's jokes and joviality as patiently as everything else, considering that "men would be so", and viewing the stronger sex… — George Eliot Copy Share
What is opportunity to the man who can't use it? An unfecundated egg, which the waves of time wash away into nonentity. — George Eliot Copy Share
And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better. — George Eliot Copy Share
“But let the wise be warned against too great readiness at explanation: it multiplies the sources of mistake, lengthening the sum for reckoners sure… — George Eliot Copy Share
“But any one watching keenly the stealthy convergence of human lots, sees a slow preparation of effects from one life on another, which tells… — George Eliot Copy Share
Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque through aerial… — George Eliot Copy Share
“Sane people did what their neighbours did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.” — George Eliot Copy Share
even those who call themselves 'intimate' know very little about each other - hardly ever know just how a sorrow is felt, and hurt… — George Eliot Copy Share
