George Eliot
Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart. — George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss. (William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London 1860)
Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart. — George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss. (William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London 1860)
Come slowly, Eden! Lips unused to thee, Bashful, sip thy jasmines, As the fainting bee, Reaching late his flower, Round her chamber hums, Counts his nectars–enters, And is lost in balms! — Emily Dickinson, “Come slowly, Eden,” [211], The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (Little, Brown & Co.,1960)
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. ― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere’s Fan. Originally published: 1893