Middlemarch Quotes
Middlemarch Quote of the day
And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
Middlemarch, the magnificent book which with all its imperfections is one of the few English novels for grown-up people.
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?'
The nature o' things doesn't change, though it seems as if one's own life was nothing but change.
If there is a perfect book to start the year with it has to be Rebecca Mead's My Life in Middlemarch.
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 so we might get a Middlemarch.
I had not read George Eliot, so read a few. I felt ashamed I hadn't read "Middlemarch" before.
Sane people did what their neighbours did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.
The days were longer then (for time, like money, is measured by our needs), when summer afternoons were spacious, and the clock ticked slowly in the winter evenings.
