Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure. – George Eliot
One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymens miseries is to go and look at their pleasures. – 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
It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees. – George Eliot
What I fell in love with as a child was My Fair Lady, Funny Face, American in Paris, and Singin in the Rain. Just perfect movies to me and I was dancing. I started ballet when I was three. And I fell in love with those movies and fell in love with Audrey Hepburn and Leslie Caron. – Dianna Agron