Middlemarch Quotes
- 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
- 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… — P.D. James
- What's your favorite book?' is a question that is usually only asked by children and banking identity-verification services--and favorite isn't, anyway, the right word to… — Rebecca Mead
- 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… — George Eliot
- But I too hate long books: the better, the worse. If they're bad they merely make me pant with the effort of holding them up… — Vikram Seth
- 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… — George Eliot
- And Dorothea..she had no dreams of being praised above other women. Feeling that there was always something better which she might have done if she… — George Eliot
- You are a good young man," she said. "But I do not like husbands. I will never have another. — George Eliot