Quote by George Eliot

“It was too intolerable that Dorothea should be worshiping this husband: such weakness in a woman is pleasant to no man but the husband…

— George Eliot

“Dorothea was not only his wife: she was a personification of that shallow world which surrounds the appreciated or desponding author.”

— George Eliot

“Consequently he would go about this in a very logical, reasonable way. The fact that he was attracted to Lady Dorothea was not important—and…

— Melanie Dickerson

“Had his chancellor and his wife become enchanted by Lady Dorothea? He was not enchanted. He only wanted to delve deeper into her temperament.…

— Melanie Dickerson

“Lady Dorothea’s opinionated answers had been exactly what he did not like, and yet . . . he had felt his usual rationality slipping…

— Melanie Dickerson

“One morning, some weeks after her arrival at Lowick, Dorothea - but why always Dorothea? Was her point of view the only possible one…

— George Eliot

“And Casaubon had done a wrong to Dorothea in marrying her. A man was bound to know himself better than that, and if he…

— George Eliot

“Dorothea, with all her eagerness to know the truths of life, retained very childlike ideas about marriage. She felt sure that she would have…

— George Eliot

“I have never done you injustice. Please remember me,” said Dorothea, repressing a rising sob. “Why should you say that?” said Will, with irritation.…

— George Eliot

“Reinhart tried to concentrate on the numbers and lists on his desk, of the expenses of the previous month, but his mind kept wandering,…

— Melanie Dickerson

“The Lady was medicine bad enough. The Dominator, though, was the body of which her evil was but a shadow. Or so the legend…

— Glen Cook

“I sat down beside her, and she kicked her stocking feet into my lap. Sitting here like this was forbidden on the Compound. Because…

— Sarina Bowen