Middlemarch Quotes

“Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot?”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

topic:world

“One can begin so many things with a new person! —even begin to be a better man.”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

topic:change relationship

“For the egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief.”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

topic:belief satisfaction

“All choice of words is slang. It marks a class.”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

topic:society

“any hardship is better than pretending to do what one is paid for, and never really doing it.”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

topic:work

“He distrusted her affection; and what loneliness is more lonely than distrust?”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

topic:loneliness

“when a man has seen the woman whom he would have chosen if he had intended to marry speedily, his remaining a bachelor will usually depend on her resolution rather than on his.”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

topic:marriage choice

“If youth is the season of hope, it is often so only in the sense that our elders are hopeful about us; for no age is so apt as youth to think its emotions, partings, and resolves are the last of their kind. Each crisis seems final, simply because...”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

topic:hope youth

“Exiles notoriously feed much on hopes, and are unlikely to stay in banishment unless they are obliged.”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

topic:hope

“The memory has as many moods as the temper, and shifts its scenery like a diorama.”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

topic:memory

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