To be candid, in Middlemarch phraseology, meant, to use an early opportunity of letting your friends know that you did not take… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
You must love your work and not always be looking over the edge of it wanting your play to begin. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
You come home to find your 17-year-old daughter engrossed in a book. Which would delight you more - if it were 'Twilight'… — Michael Gove Copy Share Image
“...[His] past had now risen, only the pleasures of it seeming to have lost their quality. Night and day, without interruption save… — George Eliot Middlemarch 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
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
“Du, Erde, warst auch diese Nacht beständig Und atmest neu erquickt zu meinen Füßert, Beginnest schon mit Lust mich zu umgeben, Du… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image