| Quote | Author | Source | Email Quote |
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| A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections. | George Eliot | Daniel Deronda |  |
| "Oh, child, men's men: gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness." | George Eliot | Daniel Deronda | |
| . . . vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return . . . | George Eliot | Daniel Deronda | |
| Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of of those who diffuse it: it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker. | George Eliot | Daniel Deronda | |
| . . . ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities. | George Eliot | Daniel Deronda | |
| "I say that the strongest principle of growth lies in human choice." | George Eliot | Daniel Deronda | |
| . . . you know nothing about Hope, that immortal, delicious maiden forever courted forever propitious, whom fools have called deceitful, as if it were Hope that carried the cup of disappointment, whereas it is her deadly enemy, Certainty, whom she only escapes by transformation. | George Eliot | Daniel Deronda | |
| "There's no disappointment in memory, and one's exaggerations are always on the good side." | George Eliot | Daniel Deronda | |
