George Eliot was a female writer in the Victorian era who foreshadowed the coming emergence of women as a force in society.

Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.
George Eliot

Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.
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

Rome – the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
George Eliot

Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.
George Eliot

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

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.
George Eliot

The best augury of a man’s success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.
George Eliot

The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief.
George Eliot

The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
George Eliot

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
George Eliot

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.
George Eliot

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
George Eliot

The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.
George Eliot

The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.
George Eliot

The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
George Eliot

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.
George Eliot

The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.
George Eliot

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
George Eliot

Consequences are unpitying.
George Eliot

Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.
George Eliot

Death is the king of this world: ‘Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.
George Eliot

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
George Eliot

Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
George Eliot

Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.
George Eliot

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.
George Eliot

Excessive literary production is a social offense.
George Eliot

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.
George Eliot

Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.
George Eliot

For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.
George Eliot

Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.
George Eliot

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
George Eliot

Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.
George Eliot

He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.
George Eliot

He was like the cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.
George Eliot

Hobbies are apt to run away with us, you know; it doesn’t do to be run away with. We must keep the reins.
George Eliot

Hostesses who entertain much must make up their parties as ministers make up their cabinets, on grounds other than personal liking.
George Eliot

I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.
George Eliot

I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.
George Eliot

Consequences are unpitying.
George Eliot

Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.
George Eliot

Death is the king of this world: ‘Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.
George Eliot

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
George Eliot

Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
George Eliot

Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.
George Eliot

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.
George Eliot

Excessive literary production is a social offense.
George Eliot

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.
George Eliot

Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.
George Eliot

For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.
George Eliot

Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.
George Eliot

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
George Eliot

Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.
George Eliot

He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.
George Eliot

He was like the cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.
George Eliot

Hobbies are apt to run away with us, you know; it doesn’t do to be run away with. We must keep the reins.
George Eliot

Hostesses who entertain much must make up their parties as ministers make up their cabinets, on grounds other than personal liking.
George Eliot

I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.
George Eliot

I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.
George Eliot

I like not only to be loved, but to be told I am loved.
George Eliot

I like trying to get pregnant. I’m not so sure about childbirth.
George Eliot

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.
George Eliot

I’m not denyin’ the women are foolish. God Almighty made ‘em to match the men.
George Eliot

I’m proof against that word failure. I’ve seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.
George Eliot

If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence.
George Eliot

Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.
George Eliot

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

In every parting there is an image of death.
George Eliot

In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.
George Eliot

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.
George Eliot

Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?
George Eliot

It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us.
George Eliot

It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal.
George Eliot

It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.
George Eliot

It is never too late to be what you might have been.
George Eliot

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
George Eliot

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
George Eliot

Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.
George Eliot

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.
George Eliot

A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.
Bob Dylan

A lot of people can’t stand touring but to me it’s like breathing. I do it because I’m driven to do it.
Bob Dylan

A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.
Bob Dylan

A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding.
Bob Dylan

A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
Bob Dylan

A poem is a naked person… Some people say that I am a poet.
Bob Dylan

A song is anything that can walk by itself.
Bob Dylan

All I can do is be me, whoever that is.
Bob Dylan

All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.
Bob Dylan

All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.
Bob Dylan

At times in my life the only place I have been happy is when I am on stage.
Bob Dylan

Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.
Bob Dylan

Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot.
Bob Dylan

Being on tour is like being in limbo. It’s like going from nowhere to nowhere.
Bob Dylan

But even the President of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked.
Bob Dylan

Chaos is a friend of mine.
Bob Dylan

Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.
Bob Dylan

Democracy don’t rule the world, You’d better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that’s better left unsaid.
Bob Dylan

Don’t matter how much money you got, there’s only two kinds of people: there’s saved people and there’s lost people.
Bob Dylan

He not busy being born is busy dying.
Bob Dylan

I accept chaos, I’m not sure whether it accepts me.
Bob Dylan

I am against nature. I don’t dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can’t touch with decay.
Bob Dylan

I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I’ll die like a poet.
Bob Dylan

I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.
Bob Dylan

I don’t think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.
Bob Dylan

I have dined with kings, I’ve been offered wings. And I’ve never been too impressed.
Bob Dylan

I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.
Bob Dylan

I say there’re no depressed words just depressed minds.
Bob Dylan

I think a poet is anybody who wouldn’t call himself a poet.
Bob Dylan

I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.
Bob Dylan

I’ll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours.
Bob Dylan

I’m just glad to be feeling better. I really thought I’d be seeing Elvis soon.
Bob Dylan

I’m speaking for all of us. I’m the spokesman for a generation.
Bob Dylan

I’ve never written a political song. Songs can’t save the world. I’ve gone through all that.
Bob Dylan

If I wasn’t Bob Dylan, I’d probably think that Bob Dylan has a lot of answers myself.
Bob Dylan

In ceremonies of the horsemen, even the pawn must hold a grudge.
Bob Dylan

In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall.
Bob Dylan

Just because you like my stuff doesn’t mean I owe you anything.
Bob Dylan

Money doesn’t talk, it swears.
Bob Dylan

No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.
Bob Dylan

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.
Bob Dylan

People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around – the music and the ideas.
Bob Dylan

Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them.
Bob Dylan

The radio makes hideous sounds.
Bob Dylan

There is nothing so stable as change.
Bob Dylan

This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway.
Bob Dylan

To live outside the law, you must be honest.
Bob Dylan

Well, the future for me is already a thing of the past.
Bob Dylan

What good are fans? You can’t eat applause for breakfast. You can’t sleep with it.
Bob Dylan

What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
Bob Dylan

When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?
Bob Dylan

Yesterday’s just a memory, tomorrow is never what it’s supposed to be.
Bob Dylan

You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past – whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.
Bob Dylan

A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken.
James Dent

If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance.
Bern Williams

The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
Wallace Stevens

Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.
Sam Keen

A life without love is like a year without summer.
Swedish Proverb

Summer is the time when one sheds one’s tensions with one’s clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit. A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that all’s right with the world.
Ada Louise Huxtable

Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.
Russel Baker

Dirty hands, iced tea, garden fragrances thick in the air and a blanket of color before me, who could ask for more?
Bev Adams

It was a splendid summer morning and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong.
John Cheever

Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.
Hal Borland

Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
Warren Buffett

Summer afternoon – summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
Henry James

What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.
Jane Austen

Do what we can, summer will have its flies.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Yellow butterflies look like flowers flying through the warm summer air.
Andrea Willis

True reconciliation does not consist in merely forgetting the past.
Nelson Mandela

Extremists on all sides thrive, fed by the blood lust of centuries gone by.
Nelson Mandela

There is no such thing as part freedom.
Nelson Mandela

And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
Nelson Mandela

Money won’t create success, the freedom to make it will.
Nelson Mandela

Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.
Nelson Mandela

Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.
Nelson Mandela

There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.
Nelson Mandela

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.
Nelson Mandela

There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
Nelson Mandela

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Nelson Mandela

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.
Nelson Mandela

In my country we go to prison first and then become President.
Nelson Mandela

It always seems impossible until its done.
Nelson Mandela

It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.
Nelson Mandela

Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.
Nelson Mandela

Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.
Nelson Mandela

I’m selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best.
Marilyn Monroe

If you can make a girl laugh – you can make her do anything.
Marilyn Monroe

A wise girl kisses but doesn’t love, listens but doesn’t believe, and leaves before she is left.
Marilyn Monroe

I want to grow old without facelifts… I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I’ve made. Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you’d never complete your life, would you? You’d never wholly know you.
Marilyn Monroe

To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation. But I’m working on the foundation.
Marilyn Monroe

What do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel No. 5, of course.
Marilyn Monroe

No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they’re pretty, even if they aren’t.
Marilyn Monroe

Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature.
Marilyn Monroe

The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.
Marilyn Monroe

The thing I want more than anything else? I want to have children. I used to feel for every child I had, I would adopt another.
Marilyn Monroe

It’s not true that I had nothing on. I had the radio on.
Marilyn Monroe

It’s often just enough to be with someone. I don’t need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You’re not alone.
Marilyn Monroe

Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.
Marilyn Monroe

My work is the only ground I’ve ever had to stand on. I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation but I’m working on the foundation.
Marilyn Monroe

I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.
Marilyn Monroe

I restore myself when I’m alone.
Marilyn Monroe

I’m very definitely a woman and I enjoy it.
Marilyn Monroe

I’ve been on a calendar, but I’ve never been on time.
Marilyn Monroe

I’ve never dropped anyone I believed in.
Marilyn Monroe

If I’d observed all the rules, I’d never have got anywhere.
Marilyn Monroe

If I’m a star, then the people made me a star.
Marilyn Monroe

It’s all make believe, isn’t it?
Marilyn Monroe

It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone – so far.
Marilyn Monroe

A career is wonderful, but you can’t curl up with it on a cold night.
Marilyn Monroe

A sex symbol becomes a thing. I just hate to be a thing.
Marilyn Monroe

Hollywood is a place where they’ll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.
Marilyn Monroe

Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.
Marilyn Monroe

I am invariably late for appointments – sometimes as much as two hours. I’ve tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing.
Marilyn Monroe

I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle.
Marilyn Monroe

I am not interested in money. I just want to be wonderful.
Marilyn Monroe

I don’t know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot.
Marilyn Monroe

I don’t mind living in a man’s world as long as I can be a woman in it.
Marilyn Monroe

I don’t mind making jokes, but I don’t want to look like one.
Marilyn Monroe

I don’t want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.
Marilyn Monroe

I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent.
Marilyn Monroe

I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy.
Marilyn Monroe