As I've gotten older I've become a devotee of 19th-century authors, such as Charles Dickens and George Eliot. — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
“If they want to flirt or initiate a friendship, they should carefully avoid giving the impression they are taking the initiative; men… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
George Eliot is my only steady girlfriend. We go to bed together every night. — Peter O'Toole Copy Share Image
“It is the fashion nowadays to undervalue the art of making a home; to deem it simplicity and easiness itself. But this… — Flora Annie Steel Copy Share Image
I had not read George Eliot, so read a few. I felt ashamed I hadn't read "Middlemarch" before. — Stephen Dobyns Copy Share Image
“No Victorian novel approaches Middlemarch in its width of reference, its intellectual power, or the imperturbable spaciousness of its narrative... I doubt… — V.S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
“Here Carlyle had come, here George Eliot had progressed through the bookshelves. Roland could see her black silk skirts, her velvet trains,… — A.S. Byatt Copy Share Image
[P]eople need to use their intelligence to evaluate what they find to be true and untrue in the Bible. This is how… — Bart D. Ehrman Copy Share Image
Rebecca Mead's My Life in Middlemarch is a wise, humane, and delightful study of what some regard as the best novel in… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
“We are not immune to the lure of wonder and mystery and awe: we have music and art and literature, and find… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“It's never too late to be the person you might have been. ~George Eliot” — A.J. Warner Copy Share Image
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