Middlemarch Quotes

“And, of course, men know best about everything, except what women know better.”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

topic:women knowledge men

“Confound you handsome young fellows! you think of having it all your own way in the world. You don't understand women. They don't admire you half so much as you admire yourselves.”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

topic:women beauty

“To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel, that discernment is but a hand playing with finely ordered variety on the chords of emotion—a soul in which knowledge passes...”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

topic:knowledge feeling poetry

“It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us.”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

topic:strength greatness

“For there is no creature whose inward being is so strong that it is not greatly determined by what lies outside it.”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

“The right word is always a power, and communicates its definiteness to our action.”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

topic:strength words

“it is seldom a medical man has true religious views—there is too much pride of intellect.”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

topic:religion intelligence pride

“pain must enter into its glorified life of memory before it can turn into compassion.”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

topic:pain memory

“Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts—not to hurt others.”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

topic:pain pride hurting

“what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

topic:pain hope despair

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