Middlemarch Quotes.

1. "It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view."
- George Eliot, Middlemarch

2. "It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted."
- George Eliot, Middlemarch

3. "But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs."
- George Eliot, Middlemarch

4. "And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better."
- George Eliot, Middlemarch

5. "We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner-time; keep back the tears and look a little pale about the lips, and in answer to inquiries say, "Oh, nothing!" Pride helps; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our hurts— not to hurt others."
- George Eliot, Middlemarch

6. "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

7. "And certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we are so fond of it."
- George Eliot, Middlemarch

8. "What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?"
- George Eliot, Middlemarch

9. "People are almost always better than their neighbors think they are."
- George Eliot, Middlemarch

10. "One can begin so many things with a new person! - even begin to be a better man."
- George Eliot, Middlemarch