George Eliot Quotes About Friends

• 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

• 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

• 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.

  George Eliot

  Friends, Yesterday, Forever

• 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.

  George Eliot

  Friends, Thinking, Fiber

  George Eliot (2010). “The Works of George Eliot”, General Books

• It is necessary to me, not simply to be but to utter, and I require utterance of my friends.

  George Eliot

  Friends, Utterance, My Friends

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6477, Delphi Classics

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