Middlemarch Quotes

“For in the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as the tie of their cravats, there is always a good number who once meant to shape their own deeds and alter the world...”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

topic:youth ambition

“It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted.”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

topic:music poetry

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

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

topic:past present

“Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

topic:science

“A man's mind—what there is of it—has always the advantage of being masculine,—as the smallest birch-tree is of a higher kind than the most soaring palm,—and even his ignorance is of a sounder quality.”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

topic:ignorance

“To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

topic:feeling

“People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbors.”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

topic:bravery

“The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

topic:intelligence

“To know intense joy without a strong bodily frame, one must have an enthusiastic soul.”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

topic:joy body

“Doubtless this persistence was the best course for his own dignity: but pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty.”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

topic:pride vanity

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