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.
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- George Eliot, Middlemarch
- 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