"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
It’s books as has the only true answers.
I've never found anything better than admiration for the admirable.
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.
Our deeds carry their terrible consequence, quite apart from any fluctuations that went before — consequences that are hardly ever confined to ourselves.
Life did change for me at that point, I felt bereft.
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.
He was as incapable of imagining the pains and joys of his fellow-men as of fathoming the silent passions of the wood or the granite.
Sorrows are our best educators.
That’s where the misery is; it’s allays some wench wi’ a head full o’ nonsense.
Love makes everthing else either possible or impossible.
