Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return. – George Eliot
Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure. – George Eliot
To be candid, in Middlemarch phraseology, meant, to use an early opportunity of letting your friends know that you did not take a cheerful view of their capacity, their conduct, or their position; and a robust candor never waited to be asked for its opinion. – George Eliot
Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends? – George Eliot