That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise.
More Quotes from George Eliot:
When Squire Cass's standing dishes diminished in plenty and freshness, his guests had nothing to do but to walk a little higher up the village to Mr. Osgood's, at the Orchards, and they found hams and chines uncut, pork-pies with the scent of the fire in them, spun butter in all its freshness--everything, in fact, that appetites at leisure could desire, in perhaps greater perfection, though not in greater abundance, than at Squire Cass's.George Eliot
Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.
George Eliot
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
George Eliot
She was always trying to be what her husband wished, and never able to repose on his delight in what she was.
George Eliot
Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque through aerial distance.
George Eliot
Blows are sarcasms turned stupid.
George Eliot
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