Middlemarch Quotes

“It is a misfortune, in some senses: I feed too much on the inward sources; I live too much with the dead. My mind is something like the ghost of an ancient, wandering about the world and trying mentally to construct it as it used to be, in spite of ruin and confusing changes.”
― 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 the roar which lies on the other side of silence”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

“Miserliness is a capital quality to run in families; it’s the safe side for madness to dip on.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch