Eliot

A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain upon the affections.

I've never had any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.

One couldn't carry on life comfortably without a little blindness to the fact that everything has been said better than we can put it ourselves.

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.

Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles. What do we live for if not to make the world less difficult for each other?

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- All from George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans), 1819 - 1880

About: Mary Ann Evans was born at Chilvers Coton, Warwickshire, England on 22 Nov in 1819, and was raised in a very conventional and pious manner. She broke that pattern early in her adult life, serving as editor and reviewer for the radical Westminster Review. Although there were many women writers at the time these were mostly writers of romance, Evans wrote her novels under the name George Eliot in order to be taken seriously. Her work, especially Middlemarch, is regarded as key to the development of the modern novel, introducing psychological insight into the characters and counterpointed plot structure.