George Eliot, Middlemarch
"Her anger said, as anger is apt to say, that God was with her— that all heaven, though it were crowded with spirits watching them, must be on her side."
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"Her anger said, as anger is apt to say, that God was with her— that all heaven, though it were crowded with spirits watching them, must be on her side."
George Eliot, Middlemarch
"We all remember epochs in our experience when some dear expectation dies, or some new motive is born."
George Eliot, Middlemarch
"I’ve always felt that your belongings have never been on a level with you."
George Eliot, Middlemarch
"Sane people did what their neighbours did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them."
George Eliot, Middlemarch
"After all, people may really have in them some vocation which is not quite plain to themselves, may they not? They may seem idle and weak because they are growing. We should be very patient with each other, I think."
George Eliot, Middlemarch
"What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?"
George Eliot, Middlemarch
"For there is no creature whose inward being is so strong that it is not greatly determined by what lies outside it."
George Eliot, Middlemarch
"How can one ever do anything nobly Christian, living among people with such petty thoughts?"
George Eliot, Middlemarch
"It is curious what patches of hardness and tenderness lie side by side in men’s dispositions. I suppose he has some test by which he finds out whom Heaven cares for."
George Eliot, Middlemarch
"I shall never forget you. I have never forgotten anyone whom I once knew. My life has never been crowded, and seems not likely to be so."
George Eliot, Middlemarch
"The memory has as many moods as the temper, and shifts its scenery like a diorama."
George Eliot, Middlemarch
"Oh, you dear good father!" cried Mary, putting her hands round her father´s neck, while he bent his head placidly, willing to be caressed. "I wonder if any other girl thinks her father the best man in the world."Nonsense, child; you´ll think your husband better."Impossible," said Mary, relapsing into her usual tone, "husbands are an inferior class of men, who require keeping in order."
George Eliot, Middlemarch
"If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?"
George Eliot, Middlemarch
"The terror of being judged sharpens the memory: it sends an inevitable glare over that long-unvisited past which has been habitually recalled only in general phrases. Even without memory, the life is bound into one by a zone of dependence in growth and decay; but intense memory forces a man to own his blameworthy past. 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
"Does any one suppose that private prayer is necessarily candid—necessarily goes to the roots of action? Private prayer is inaudible speech, and speech is representative: who can represent himself just as he is, even in his own reflections?"
George Eliot, Middlemarch
"All choice of words is slang. It marks a class.” “There is correct English: that is not slang.” “I beg your pardon: correct English is the slang of prigs who write history and essays. And the strongest slang of all is the slang of poets."
George Eliot, Middlemarch
"Mrs. Bulstrode's naïve way of conciliating piety and worldliness, the nothingness of this life and desirability of cut glass, the consciousness at once of filthy rags and the best damask..."
George Eliot, Middlemarch
"Destiny stands by sarcastic with our dramatis personae folded in her hand."
George Eliot, Middlemarch
"A medical man likes to make psychological observations, and sometimes in the pursuit of such studies is too easily tempted into momentous prophecy which life and death easily set at nought."
George Eliot, Middlemarch
"Society never made the preposterous demand that a man should think as much about his own qualifications for making a charming girl happy as he thinks of hers for making himself happy."
George Eliot, Middlemarch
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