Animals are such agreeable friends they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms

Quote by George Eliot

Topics: Friendship Quotes

Excessive literary production is a social offense.

Excessive literary production is a social offense.

Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.

Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.

Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us...

Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us...

Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.

Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are...

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are...

There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to...

There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to...

Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be...

Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be...

Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems...

Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems...

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in,...

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in,...

Hear Everything and judge for yourself

Hear Everything and judge for yourself

A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar...

A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar...

Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow

Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow

The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.

The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.

It's no trifle at her time of life to part with a doctor who knows...

It's no trifle at her time of life to part with a doctor who knows...

Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.

Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.

Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful...

Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful...

It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon...

It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon...

We must face the fact that the United States is neither omnipotent nor omniscient; that...

We must face the fact that the United States is neither omnipotent nor omniscient; that...