George Eliot

In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.

An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.

Kobieta wierzy, że dwa i dwa zmieni się w pięć, jeżeli będzie długo płakać i zrobi awanturę.

I should like to know what is the proper function of women if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.

We are all apt to believe what the world believes about us.

There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.

Our deeds follow us, and what we have been makes us what we are. There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.

Nothing is as good as it seems beforehand.

There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.

It is never too late to be what we might have been.

Nasze czyny determinują nas, tak samo jak my determinujemy nasze czyny.

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

Blessed is the person who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

Chwała tym, którzy nie mając nic do powiedzenia, nie próbują tego uzasadniać.