Middlemarch is the epic novel by George
Eliot. The work is considered one of the representative novels of
the Victorian period. Instead of following grand heroes, this epic
tells the story of ordinary characters--all intertwined and
interlinked in a communal web of existence. Here are a few quotes
from the novel.
- "Will not a tiny speck very close
to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a
margin by which we see the blot?"
- George Eliot, Middlemarch
- "People glorify all sorts of
bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their
nearest neighbors."
- George Eliot, Middlemarch
- "Miss Brooke had that kind of
beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress."
- George Eliot, Middlemarch
- "What do we live for, if it is
not to make life less difficult to each other?"
- George Eliot, Middlemarch
- "One must be poor to know the
luxury of giving!"
- George Eliot, Middlemarch
- "Signs are small measurable
things, but interpretations are illimitable, and in girls of sweet,
ardent nature, every sign is apt to conjure up wonder, hope,
belief, vast as a sky, and colored by a diffused thimbleful of
matter in the shape of knowledge."
- George Eliot, Middlemarch
- "If we had a keen vision and
feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the
grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that
roar which lies on the other side of silence."
- George Eliot, Middlemarch
- "There is a sort of jealousy
which needs very little fire: it is hardly a passion, but a blight
bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism."
- George Eliot, Middlemarch
- "It is an uneasy lot at best, to
be what we call highly taught and yet not to enjoy: to be present
at this great spectacle of life and never to be liberated from a
small hungry shivering self--never to be fully possessed by the
glory we behold, never to have our consciousness rapturously
transformed into the vividness of a thought, the ardor of a
passion, the energy of an action, but always to be scholarly and
uninspired, ambitious and timid, scrupulous and dim-sighted."
- George Eliot, Middlemarch
- "I would not creep along the
coast but steer out in mid-sea, by guidance of the stars."
- George Eliot, Middlemarch
- "But what we call our despair is
often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope."
- George Eliot, Middlemarch
- "She was always trying to be what
her husband wished, and never able to repose on his delight in what
she was."
- George Eliot, Middlemarch
- "But Duty has a trick of behaving
unexpectedly--something like a heavy friend whom we have amiably
asked to visit us, and who breaks his leg within our gates."
- George Eliot, Middlemarch
- "With memory set smarting like a
reopened wound, a man's past is not simply a dead history, an
outworn preparation of the present: it is not a repented error
shaken loose from the life: it is a still quivering part of
himself, bringing shudders and bitter flavors and the tinglings of
a merited shame."
- George Eliot, Middlemarch
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