- Rev. Camden Farebrother: [warning Lydgate about Rosamund] Miss Vincy is the most beautiful girl in Middlemarch - though not one of its leading minds.
- Dr. Tertius Lydgate: [laughing] I'm not interested in her mind. I want to marry her.
- Rosamond Vincy: You know, Mary, it's not my fault that I'm blonde and beautiful.
- Mary Garth: Maybe not. But you don't have to enjoy it so much, do you?
- Will Ladislaw: And how are you enjoying Rome, Mrs. Casaubon? So many centuries of beauty and history. And speaking of beauty, I have an artist friend who would like to paint a likeness of you.
- Dorothea: [Blushing] Can't he paint my husband instead?
- Will Ladislaw: That's not a painting I'd want to look at for very long.