George Eliot

Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.

George Eliot

Life was so complicated a game that the devices of skill were liable to be defeated at every turn by air-blown chances, incalculable as the descent of thistle-down.

George Eliot

Love once, love always.

George Eliot

Love supreme defies all sophistry.

George Eliot

Man may content himself with the applause of the world and the homage paid to his intellect, but woman’s heart has holier idols.

George Eliot

Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.

George Eliot

No chemical process shows a more wonderful activity than the transforming influence of the thoughts we imagine to be going on in another.

George Eliot

No man can begin to mould himself on a faith or an idea without rising to a higher order of experience.

George Eliot

One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.

George Eliot

One of the tortures of jealousy is, that it can never turn away its eyes from the thing that pains it.

George Eliot