George Eliot Quotes about Friendship

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Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful

Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

George Eliot

Love, Friendship, Relationship

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

George Eliot

Friendship, Agreement, Delight

George Eliot (1997). “Felix Holt, the Radical”, p.105, Wordsworth Editions

Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.

George Eliot

Friendship, Happiness, Smile

Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.

George Eliot

Best Friend, Friendship, Relationship

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

George Eliot

Love, Inspirational, Friendship

"The New Dictionary of Thoughts: A Cyclopedia of Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, both Ancient and Modern". Book compiled by Tryon Edwards et al., 1960.

A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

George Eliot

Friendship, Best Friend, True Friend

No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.

George Eliot

Friendship, Trust, Character

George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.1454, Delphi Classics

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.

George Eliot

Inspirational, Life, Friendship

George Eliot (2016). “Scenes of Clerical Life: Top Novelist Focus”, p.210, 谷月社

What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind - the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other; that has always been my firm faith about friendship.

George Eliot

Cute, Friendship, Faith

George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus”, p.134, 谷月社

It is hard to believe long together that anything is "worth while," unless there is some eye to kindle in common with our own, some brief word uttered now and then to imply that what is infinitely precious to us is precious alike to another mind.

George Eliot

Friendship, Believe, Eye

George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus”, p.441, 谷月社

How unspeakably the lengthening of memories in common endears our old friends!

George Eliot

Friendship, Birthday, Memories

George Eliot (1860). “Life and Letters”, p.678

For character too is a process and an unfolding. . . among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful. . . .

George Eliot

Friendship, Character, Self

George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch”, p.162, Booklassic