Top 31 Quotes About Middlemarch
#1. If there is a perfect book to start the year with it has to be Rebecca Mead's My Life in Middlemarch.
The Edge
#2. I'm the weird person who completely loved and devoured 'Middlemarch' but who has not finished far shorter and more readable books due to distraction or the fact that by some miracle I am sleeping through the night.
Sally Mann
#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. Great literature cannot grow from a neglected or impoverished soil. Only if we actually tend or care will it transpire that every hundred years or so we might get a Middlemarch.
P.D. James
#5. If a child wants to read 'Twilight' over Middlemarch, they should be encouraged - the important thing is to get them reading in the first place.
Malorie Blackman
#6. It is a truism of epistolary psychology that, for example, a Christmas thank-you note written on December 26 can say any old thing, but if you wait until February, you are convinced that nothing less than Middlemarch will do.
Anne Fadiman
#7. The narrating voice that tells 'Middlemarch' is just as much a made-up character as Dorothea or Mr. Casaubon.
Philip Pullman
#8. 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
#9. You come home to find your 17-year-old daughter engrossed in a book. Which would delight you more - if it were 'Twilight' or 'Middlemarch?'
Michael Gove
#10. Those who read Middlemarch in that way will find little in Their Eyes Were Watching God to please them. It's about a girl who takes some time to find the man she really loves. It is about the discovery of self in and through another.
Zadie Smith
#11. [Middlemarch] is a treasure-house of details, but it is an indifferent whole.
Henry James
#12. 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
#13. I loved 'Middlemarch,' I think that's one of my favourite books of all time, actually.
Eleanor Catton
#14. I loved Middlemarch, and I loved being the kind of person who loved it.
Rebecca Mead
#15. Middlemarch, the magnificent book which with all its imperfections is one of the few English novels for grown-up people.
Virginia Woolf
#16. 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
#17. You are a good young man," she said. "But I do not like husbands. I will never have another.
George Eliot
#19. While I may not be able to describe to you exactly what enlightenment is like, I can tell you that it is wonderful beyond understanding. The experience of enlightenment frees your mind from painful and limited states of awareness.
Frederick Lenz
#20. 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
#21. The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love.
William Wordsworth
#22. The nature o' things doesn't change, though it seems as if one's own life was nothing but change.
George Eliot
#23. 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
#24. Souls have complexions too: what will suit one will not suit another.
George Eliot
#25. Why do you always have to be so stereotypically gay?
Anonymous
#26. He brushed my curls back off my face. I never pictured my life so complete. I never thought I'd have everything I want. You're everything to me, Angel.
Becca Fitzpatrick
#27. I'm pretty good at taking accountability now, and I never did anything to deserve that. It was a really lousy thing for her to do.
John Mayer
#28. An awkward impasse. No one knew exactly how to say good-bye. A wave? A handshake? A kiss?
Harlan Coben
#29. 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
#30. How did Mike Bibby get on the team? Any Cub Scout with Boy Scouts can do Boy Scoutish things. When Bibby was in the Cub Scouts, he was a Cub Scout. When he was with Vancouver, nobody heard about him. Now that he's with Sacramento ... he's on the team. I ain't going.
Shaquille O'Neal
#31. Lucille always loved a strong breeze. She said it was nature's way of blowing away our sorrows.'
Just then another gust of wind whipped around us. Aunt Tootie smiled. I smiled too.
Beth Hoffman
