George Meredith quotes Born: 02/12/1828 Died: 05/18/1909 Country: united_kingdom

• Cynicism is intellectual dandyism. (George Meredith) [cynicism]
• That rarest gift to Beauty, Common Sense! (George Meredith) [beauty]
• Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity. (George Meredith)
• A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are. (George Meredith) [human/motion/account]
• Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul when hot for certainties in this our life! (George Meredith) [life]
• Jealousy is love bed of burning snarl. (George Meredith) [jealousy/love]
• The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination. (George Meredith) [love/death/imagination]
• Passions spin the plot: We are betrayed by what is false within. (George Meredith)
• The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures. (George Meredith) [love]
• Speech is the small change of silence. (George Meredith) [speech/change/silence]
• Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold, And the great price we paid for it full worth: We have it only when we are half earth. Little avails that coinage to the old! (George Meredith) [look/wisdom/gold/price]
• Memoirs are the backstairs of history. (George Meredith) [memoirs]
• She poured a little social sewage into his ears. (George Meredith)
• Caricature is rough truth. (George Meredith) [truth]
• I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man. (George Meredith) [willpower/thing]
• A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power. (George Meredith)
• Always imitate the behavior of the winners when you lose. (George Meredith)
• Bring the army of the faithful through. (George Meredith)
• Don't just count your years, make your years count. (George Meredith)
• I expect Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man. (George Meredith)
• Kissing don't last: cookery do! (George Meredith)
• The man of science is nothing if not a poet gone wrong. (George Meredith)
• The man or country that fights priestcraft and priests is to my mind striking deeper for freedom than can be struck anywhere. (George Meredith)
• The well of true wit is truth itself. (George Meredith)
• There is nothing the body suffers the soul may not profit by. (George Meredith)
• Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered. (George Meredith)

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