That’s what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he’s wise. – George Eliot
The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance. – George Eliot
There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism. – George Eliot
But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with. – George Eliot
Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact. – George Eliot