George Eliot Middlemarch Quotes

#1. Never before have the tools of value creation been so great and the potential artisans so busy watching the Kardashians.

Ryan Lilly

#2. Let your feet Take you places, let them remind you of the beauty your eyes can't see.

Nikki Rowe

#3. Still, I repeat, there was a general impression that Lydgate was something rather more uncommon than any general practitioner in Middlemarch. And

George Eliot

#4. Genius consisting neither in self-conceit nor in humilty, but in a power to making or do, not anything in general, but something in particular.

George Eliot

#5. You are a good young man," she said. "But I do not like husbands. I will never have another.

George Eliot

#6. It is strange how deeply colors seem to penetrate one, like scent. I suppose that is the reason why gems are used as spiritual emblems in the Revelation of St John. They look like fragments of heaven. I think the emerald is more beautiful than any of them.

George Eliot

#7. The movement toward gratitude, authenticity, and union is the natural and organic inner work of the second half of our lives.

Richard Rohr

#8. And perhaps I understood it all wrong, but I understood it and that was the novelty.

Samuel Beckett

#9. To be candid, in Middlemarch phraseology, meant, to use an early opportunity of letting your friends know that you did not take a cheerful view of their capacity, their conduct, or their position; and a robust candor never waited to be asked for its opinion.

George Eliot

#10. I never intended being a business person I wanted to be a fashion designer.

Anna Sui

#11. Our brains are hardwired to think in terms of place and to associate psychic value or meaning to the places we inhabit.

Colin Dickey

#12. The nature o' things doesn't change, though it seems as if one's own life was nothing but change.

George Eliot

#13. The days were longer then (for time, like money, is measured by our needs), when summer afternoons were spacious, and the clock ticked slowly in the winter evenings.

George Eliot

#14. At all events, it is certain that if any medicinal man had come to Middlemarch with the reputation of having very definite religious views, of being given to prayer, and of otherwise showing an active piety, there would have been a general presumption against his medical skill.

George Eliot

#15. Souls have complexions too: what will suit one will not suit another.

George Eliot

#16. The schoolboy counts the time till the return of the holidays; the minor longs to be of age; the lover is impatient till he is married.

Joseph Addison

#17. It is the little things that pierce and burn and prick for years to come.

Algernon Blackwood

#18. That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don't quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil
widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower.

George Eliot