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

Quote by George Eliot

Topics: Love Quotes

Animals are such agreeable friends they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms

Animals are such agreeable friends they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough...

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough...

Kisses honeyed by oblivion.

Kisses honeyed by oblivion.

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we...

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we...

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which...

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which...

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

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

Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities

Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities

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

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

But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

Hostesses who entertain much must make up their parties as ministers make up their cabinets,...

Hostesses who entertain much must make up their parties as ministers make up their cabinets,...

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are...

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are...

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

It's no trifle at her time of life to part with a doctor who knows...

It's no trifle at her time of life to part with a doctor who knows...

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving

I can't bare fishing. I think people look like fools sitting watching a line hour...

I can't bare fishing. I think people look like fools sitting watching a line hour...

We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to...

We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to...

Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us...

Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us...

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!

Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of...

Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of...

Excessive literary production is a social offense.

Excessive literary production is a social offense.