George Eliot

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

There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.

No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference.

If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality.

I just had an idea that went right over my head.

I think when you marry up like I did and Mitt Romney did, your wife says a lot about who you are and I think she humanizes him and brings a different vision of who Mitt Romney is.