Marriage Quote by 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

“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

“The effect of Dorothea's being on those around her was incalculable diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric…

— George Eliot Middlemarch

“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

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

— Melanie Dickerson

“There was a peculiar fascination for Dorothea in this division of property intended for herself, and always regarded by her as excessive. She was…

— 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

“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

“She seated herself on a dark ottoman with the brown books behind her, looking in her plain dress of some thin woollen-white material, without…

— 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

“Not at all," said Dorothea, with the most open kindness. "I like you very much." Will was not quite contented, thinking that he would…

— George Eliot