George Eliot
George Eliot
Mary Ann Evans, known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She is the author of seven novels, including Adam Bede, The Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner, Felix Holt, the Radical, Middlemarch, and Daniel Deronda, most of them set in provincial England and known for their realism and psychological insight...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth22 November 1819
inspirational life friendship
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.
friends thinking fiber
It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.
friends utterance my-friends
It is necessary to me, not simply to be but to utter, and I require utterance of my friends.
friends yesterday forever
Of new acquaintances one can never be sure because one likes them one day that it will be so the next. Of old friends one is sure that it will be the same yesterday, today, and forever.
friendship believe eye
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.
friendship character self
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. . . .
memories old-friends common
How unspeakably the lengthening of memories in common endears our old friends!
best-friend spring new-friends
Best friend, my well-spring in the wilderness!
best-friend friendship relationship
Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
friendship best-friend true-friend
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.
friendship happiness smile
Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
friendship cute faith
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.
love inspirational friendship
Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
long soul trust-and-friendship
No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.