George Eliot Quotes About Kindness

• 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

• 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

• What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.

  George Eliot

  Happiness, Smile, Wise

• When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.

  George Eliot

  Life, Wisdom, Peace

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.47, Wordsworth Editions

• He was one of those men, and they are not the commonest, of whom we can know the best only by following them away from the marketplace, the platform, and the pulpit, entering with them into their own homes, hearing the voice with which they speak to the young and aged about their own hearthstone, and witnessing their thoughtful care for the everyday wants of everyday companions, who take all their kindness as a matter of course, and not as a subject for panegyric.

  George Eliot

  Kindness, Home, Men

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.72, Delphi Classics

• It is good to be helpful and kindly, but don't give yourself to be melted into candle grease for the benefit of the tallow trade.

  George Eliot

  Kindness, Giving, Grease

• Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.

  George Eliot

  Kindness, Ignorant, Would Be

  George Eliot (2006). “Daniel Deronda Volume Iii EasyRead Editi”, p.138, ReadHowYouWant.com

• In the man whose childhood has known caresses and kindness, there is always a fiber of memory that can be touched to gentle issues.

  George Eliot

  Children, Memories, Kindness

• He had the superficial kindness of a good-humored, self-satisfied nature, that fears no rivalry, and has encountered no contrarieties.

  George Eliot

  Kindness, Self, Rivalry

  George Eliot (1889). “Mill on the Floss ; Silas Marner ; The Lifted Veil ; and Brother Jacob”

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