Quotes from book

Middlemarch

“The memory has as many moods as the temper, and shifts its scenery like a diorama.”

“It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted.”

“One can begin so many things with a new person! - even begin to be a better man.”

“He distrusted her affection; and what loneliness is more lonely than distrust.”

“After all, the true seeing is within.”

“Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.”

“It's a father's duty to give his sons a fine chance.”

“Sane people did what their neighbors did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.”

“Confound you handsome young fellows! You think of having it all your own way in the world. You don't understand women. They don't admire you half so much as you admire yourselves.”

“But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.”

“Our deeds still travel with us from afar/And what we have been makes us what we are.”

“What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?”

“Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.”

“Blameless people are always the most exasperating.”

“A prig is a fellow who is always making you a present of his opinions.”

“If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?”

“I protest against any absolute conclusion.”

“We are all humiliated by the sudden discovery of a fact which has existed very comfortably and perhaps been staring at us in private while we have been making up our world entirely without it.”

“People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbors.”