Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
George Eliot
Friendship Quotes
To manage men, one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
George Eliot
Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.
George Eliot
There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds -- not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but -- a hatred of all injury.
George Eliot
Hatred is like fire; it makes even light rubbish deadly.
George Eliot
Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw.
George Eliot
If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence. As it is, the best of us walk about well wadded with stupidity.
George Eliot
Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.
George Eliot
Sympathetic people often don't communicate well, they back reflected images which hide their own depths.
George Eliot
How unspeakably the lengthening of memories in common endears our old friends!
George Eliot
Friendship Quotes
Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning, but give me the man who has pluck to fight when he's sure of losing. That's my way, sir; and there are many victories worse than a defeat.
George Eliot
The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.
George Eliot
Animals are such agreeable friends, they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
George Eliot
Friendship Quotes
In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.
George Eliot
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.