George Eliot

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

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

The desire to conquer is itself a sort of subjection.

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

The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.

It was not that she was out of temper, but that the world was not equal to the demands of her fine organism.

Cats are smarter than dogs. You can not get eight cats to pull a sled through snow.

By what right has the dog come to be regarded as a noble animal? The more brutal and cruel and unjust you are to him the more your fawning and adoring slave he becomes; whereas, if you shamefully misuse a cat once she will always maintain a dignified reserve toward you afterward-you will never get her full confidence again.

The more I know about people, the more I like dogs. I simply like animals.

I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

Don’t ever wrestle with a pig. You’ll both get dirty, but the pig will enjoy it.

One dog barks at something. And a hundred dogs bark at the sound.

Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to.

Don’t tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don’t tell them where they know the fish.

Just because an animal is large, it doesn’t mean he doesn’t want kindness; however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo.

I’d like to devote about three years to the elimination of the cow. There’s not reason in the world why the chemist can’t discover the cow’s secret of converting vegetation into dairy products. And there’s less reason why the chemist can’t do a better job of it after he learns how.

It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked.

Just when the caterpillar thought the world was ending, he turned into a butterfly.

Dogs’ lives are too short. Their only fault, really.

Are cats lazy? Well, more power to them if they are. Which one of us has not entertained the dream of doing just as he likes, when and how he likes, and as much as he likes?

All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.