1819-1880, British Novelist
Where women love each other, men learn to smother their mutual dislike.
George Eliot – [Men and Women]
Who has not felt the beauty of a woman's arm? The unspeakable suggestions of tenderness that lie in the dimpled elbow, and all the varied gently-lessening curves, down to the delicate wrist, with its tiniest, almost imperceptible nicks in the firm softness.
George Eliot – [Body]
With memory set smarting like a reopened wound, a man's past is not simply a dead history, an outworn preparation of the present: it is not a repented error shaken loose from the life: it is a still quivering part of himself, bringing shudders and bitter flavors and the tinglings of a merited shame.
George Eliot – [Past]
Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night.
George Eliot – [Funerals]
Would not love see returning penitence afar off, and fall on its neck and kiss it?
George Eliot – [Forgiveness]
You have such strong words at command, that they make the smallest argument seem formidable.
George Eliot – [Eloquence]
You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl.
George Eliot – [Oppression]
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