"The Mill on the Floss" Quotes
"The Mill on the Floss" follows the tragic lives of siblings Maggie and Tom Tulliver as they navigate family loyalty, societal expectations, and personal desires in rural England.
classics | 293 pages | Published in 2021
Quotes
Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
Life did change for me at that point, I felt bereft.
That’s where the misery is; it’s allays some wench wi’ a head full o’ nonsense.
I'm not denying that my sympathies are with the husband and children rather than with the wife.
We must have love and we must have patience—with others and with ourselves.
I've never found anything better than admiration for the admirable.
I have all mannas of prayers for them open before me; and if they are never answered, I shall know it isn't because I didn't lay them all before God.
There are some men who are brought into the world to create misery, and other men to make them happy.
A woman’s love can see what is pure and right better than a man’s.
She was no longer proud of her cruelty; it seemed to her no better than cutting off a lifeless imitation of the same flower and expecting to find its colours unchanged.
