“I protest against any absolute conclusion.”
Source: Middlemarch
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Source: Middlemarch
Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)
“It's well known there's always two sides, if no more.”
Source: Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life
“People are almost always better than their neighbors think they are.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)
“The memory has as many moods as the temper, and shifts its scenery like a diorama.”
Source: Four Novels of George Eliot
“Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.”
Source: Middlemarch
“Destiny stands by sarcastic with our dramatis personae folded in her hand.”
Source: Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Source: Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“You know I have duties──we both have duties──before which feeling must be sacrificed.”
“What a different result one gets by changing the metaphor!”
Source: The Mill on the Floss
“I shall do everything it becomes me to do.”
Source: Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Source: Daniel Deronda: Top Novelist Focus
“The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.”
Source: Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)
“After all, the true seeing is within.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)
Source: Middlemarch
“but very little achievement is required in order to pity another man's shortcomings.”
Source: Middlemarch
Source: Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Source: Silas Marner
“You are a good young man," she said. "But I do not like husbands. I will never have another.”
Source: Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“A man falling into dark waters seeks a momentary footing even on sliding stones.”
Source: Silas Marner: Literary Touchstone Edition
Source: Middlemarch
Source: Four Novels of George Eliot
Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)
Source: Complete Works Of George Eliot
“A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)
“How can one ever do anything nobly Christian, living among people with such petty thoughts?”
Source: Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Source: Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“Somebody put a drop under a magnifying-glass and it was all semicolons and parentheses.”
Source: Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Source: Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life
Source: Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“Self-consciousness of the manner is the expensive substitute for simplicity.”
“Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.”
Source: Four Novels of George Eliot
“Power of generalizing gives men so much the superiority in mistake over the dumb animals.”
Source: Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)
Source: Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Source: Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Source: Four Novels of George Eliot
“Upon my word, I think the truth is the hardest missile one can be pelted with.”
Source: Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Source: Complete Works Of George Eliot
Source: The Mill on the Floss
Source: George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus
Source: Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)