• Movies
  • TV Shows
  • Books
  • Authors
  • Blog

Middlemarch Quotes

Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbor’s buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.

Source:(Penguin Books, ed. 1973), Book II. Old and Young, Chapter 21, Page 240
Find more on

Themes

Mortality

Related Quotes

  • So man’s insanity is heaven’s sense; and wandering from all mortal reason, man comes at last to that celestial thought, which, to reason, is...
  • There are three things, and three things only, that can lift the pain of mortality and ease the ravages of life. These things are...
  • It is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn of death, that mortals realize the silent, subtle, everpresent perils of life.

Related Books

Little DorritThe Strain (The Strain Trilogy)A Strangeness in My MindVoyager (Outlander #3)Eugénie GrandetThe MetamorphosisNauseaOn Her Majesty's Secret Service (James Bond #11)DraculaThe Fiery Cross (Outlander #5)
George Eliot (Middlemarch Quotes)
  • Book: Middlemarch
  • Writer: George Eliot
  • Genre: fiction
  • Published: 1872
  • More on:
  • About Us
  • Privacy
  • Terms
  • Contact
© 2013-2023 MagicalQuote
  • Movies
  • TV Shows
  • Books
  • Authors
  • Blog