Quote by George Eliot

“I at least have so much to do in unraveling certain human lots, and seeing how they were woven and interwoven, that all the…

— George Eliot

“The story of their coming to be shapen after the average and fit to be packed by the gross, is hardly ever told even…

— George Eliot

“[Middlemarch] is a treasure-house of details, but it is an indifferent whole.”

— Henry James

“They were all men, all middle-aged, all of a type: intelligent and elitist, yet deferential to the point of groveling before the king. The”

— Geraldine Brooks

“Then, as now, archaelogists and writers ventured where others feared to tread.”

— Janet Wallach

“He had that rarest of all things, common sense.”

— Oscar Wilde

“The marquis stared at Richard, openly amused. "What a refreshing mind you have, young man," he said. "There really is nothing quite like total…

— Neil Gaiman

“Somehow, someway, I had to figure out how to talk my husband (and the king and queen) into accepting me as a replacement for…

— Kristen Ashley

“The Lannisters may have their pride,” she told Mya, “but the Tullys are born with better sense.”

— George R.R. Martin

“Don't talk so, Lysis. I'm sure you kept your head much better than I did." He smiled, and quoted a certain phrase, recalling a…

— Mary Renault

“He was not just the common wayfarer.”

— Ronald A. Franz

“Mr. Harrison was certainly different from other people…and that is the essential characteristic of a crank, as everybody knows.”

— L.M. Montgomery