George Eliot

Joy is the best of wine.

George Eliot

Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.

George Eliot

Life is like a game of whist. I don’t enjoy the game much; but I like to play my cards well, and see what will be the end of it.

George Eliot

Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing.

George Eliot

Life was never anything but a perpetual see-saw between gravity and jest.

George Eliot

Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves.

George Eliot

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

George Eliot

Mighty is the force of motherhood! It transforms all things by its vital heat.

George Eliot

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

George Eliot

Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour’s buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.

George Eliot