Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking

Quote by George Eliot

Topics: Friendship Quotes

Be courteous, be obliging, but don't give yourself over to be melted down for the...

Be courteous, be obliging, but don't give yourself over to be melted down for the...

How could a man be satisfied with a decision between such alternatives and under such...

How could a man be satisfied with a decision between such alternatives and under such...

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable...

For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable...

I can't bare fishing. I think people look like fools sitting watching a line hour...

I can't bare fishing. I think people look like fools sitting watching a line hour...

Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities

Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we...

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we...

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love

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...

Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage...

Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage...

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust.

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust.

Our consciousness rarely registers the beginning of a growth within us any more than without...

Our consciousness rarely registers the beginning of a growth within us any more than without...

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

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

An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.

An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord...

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord...

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...

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.

There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.

Consequences are unpitying.

Consequences are unpitying.

I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.

I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.