George Eliot Funny Quotes

• The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

  George Eliot

  Funny, Happy Birthday, Time

• That quiet mutual gaze of a trusting husband and wife is like the first moment of rest or refuge from a great weariness or a great danger-not to be interfered with by speech or action which would distract the sensations from the fresh enjoyment of repose.

  George Eliot

  Funny, Husband, Wife

  George Eliot (2004). “Silas Marner (Sparklesoup Classics)”, p.113, Sparklesoup LLC

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

  George Eliot

  Funny, Women, Humor

  Daniel Deronda bk. 2, ch. 15 (1876)

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