"Middlemarch" Quotes
The lives of the residents of a small English town intertwine as they navigate love, ambition, and societal expectations in the 19th century.
classics | Published in 2018
Quotes
I suppose it is the way with all women when they love.
Rome could be very wicked, and the middle ages very stupid.
It would be a great mistake to suppose that Dorothea would have cared about anything in the shape of a lover's attentions.
The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly taught and yet not to enjoy.
Oh, my dear, we must be thankful for the ordinary, when the extraordinary is only an agony.
The idea of a woman's appealing to her family to screen her from her husband's anger is inadmissible.
We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner-time.
In poor Rosamond's mind there was not room enough for luxuries to look small in.
Life is too short for a woman to be bored in.
