Friendships begin with liking or gratitude- roots that can be pulled up. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It is always chilling, in friendly intercourse, to say you have no opinion to give. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?” — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
How unspeakably the lengthening of memories in common endears our old friends! — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It is necessary to me, not simply to be but to utter, and I require utterance of my friends. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Among all the many kinds of first love, that which begins in childish companionship is the strongest and most enduring: when passion… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Duty has a trick of behaving unexpectedly -- something like a heavy friend whom we have amiably asked to visit us, and… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Dear Friends all, A thousand Christmas pleasures and blessings to you -- good resolutions and bright hopes for the New Year! Amen.… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Throughout their friendship Deronda had been used to Hans' egotism, but he had never before felt intolerant of it: when Hans, habitually… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Of new acquaintances one can never be sure because one likes them one day that it will be so the next. Of… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
To be candid, in Middlemarch phraseology, meant, to use an early opportunity of letting your friends know that you did not take… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
For character too is a process and an unfolding. . . among our valued friends is there not someone or other who… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It is hard to believe long together that anything is "worth while," unless there is some eye to kindle in common with… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
For character too is a process and an unfoldingamong our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Doesn't this quote just call up feelings of comfort and home? Comparing friendship to the nest a bird lives in and builds… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor to measure words but… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“His friend Tulliver had asked him for an opinion; it is always chilling, in friendly intercourse, to say you have no opinion… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“…whatever else remained the same, the light had changed, and you cannot find the pearly dawn at noonday. The fact is unalterable,… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“All these crushing questions; but whatever else remained the same, the light had changed, and you cannot find the pearly dawn at… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Better a wrong will than a wavering; better a steadfast enemy than an uncertain friend; better a false belief than no belief… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
How oft review; each finding, like a friend, Something to blame, and something to commend. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles. — George Eliot Copy Share
But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on… — George Eliot Copy Share
Scepticismcan never be thoroughly applied, else life would come to a standstill. — George Eliot Copy Share
Under every guilty secret there is hidden a brood of guilty wishes, whose unwholesome infecting life is cherished by the darkness. — George Eliot Copy Share
The most powerful movement of feeling with a liturgy is the prayer which seeks for nothing special, but is a yearning to escape from… — George Eliot Copy Share
“[W]e must learn to accommodate ourselves to the discovery that some of those cunningly-fashioned instruments called human souls have only a very limited range… — George Eliot Copy Share
“Mr. Casaubon had never had a strong bodily frame, and his soul was sensitive without being enthusiastic: it was too languid to thrill out… — George Eliot Copy Share
“... she took her husband's jokes and joviality as patiently as everything else, considering that "men would be so", and viewing the stronger sex… — George Eliot Copy Share
What is opportunity to the man who can't use it? An unfecundated egg, which the waves of time wash away into nonentity. — George Eliot Copy Share
And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better. — George Eliot Copy Share
“But let the wise be warned against too great readiness at explanation: it multiplies the sources of mistake, lengthening the sum for reckoners sure… — George Eliot Copy Share
“But any one watching keenly the stealthy convergence of human lots, sees a slow preparation of effects from one life on another, which tells… — George Eliot Copy Share
Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque through aerial… — George Eliot Copy Share
“Sane people did what their neighbours did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.” — George Eliot Copy Share
even those who call themselves 'intimate' know very little about each other - hardly ever know just how a sorrow is felt, and hurt… — George Eliot Copy Share
