Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.
George Eliot

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.
George Eliot

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

Might, could, would - they are contemptible auxiliaries.
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

No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference.
George Eliot

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.
George Eliot

No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.
George Eliot

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
George Eliot

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.
George Eliot

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
George Eliot

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
George Eliot

Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.
George Eliot

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
George Eliot

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
George Eliot

Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
George Eliot

Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.
George Eliot

People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.
George Eliot

Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.
George Eliot