Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
You are a good young man," she said. "But I do not like husbands. I will never have another. — 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
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
A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Dorothea was not only his wife: she was a personification of that shallow world which surrounds the appreciated or desponding author.” — 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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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
I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to… — 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
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
“... 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
“A man with an affectionate disposition, who finds a wife to concur with his fundamental idea of life, easily comes to persuade… — 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
“What greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel that they are joined for life--to strengthen each other in… — 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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
“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
... happy husbands and wives can hear each other say the same thing over and over again without being tired. — 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
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
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 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
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
Marriage is so unlike everything else. There is something even awful in the nearness it brings. Even if we loved someone else… — 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 Image
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 Image
Scepticismcan never be thoroughly applied, else life would come to a standstill. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
“[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 Image
“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 Image
“... 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 Image
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 Image
And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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