George Meredith Quotes
"Memoirs are the backstairs of history."
- George Meredith
(Related: History)
"Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered."
- George Meredith
(Related: Man, Prayer)
"Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity."
- George Meredith
(Related: Obligation, Possession)
"There is nothing the body suffers the soul may not profit by."
- George Meredith
(Related: Soul, Body, May, Nothing, Profit)
"She poured a little social sewage into his ears."
- George Meredith
"Speech is the small change of silence."
- George Meredith
(Related: Change, Silence, Speech)
"The man of science is nothing if not a poet gone wrong."
- George Meredith
(Related: Science, Man, Nothing, Wrong)
"The man or country that fights priestcraft and priests is to my mind striking deeper for freedom than can be struck anywhere."
- George Meredith
(Related: Country, Freedom, Man, Mind)
"The well of true wit is truth itself."
- George Meredith
(Related: Truth, Wit)
"Cynicism is intellectual dandyism."
- George Meredith
(Related: Cynicism)
"The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination."
- George Meredith
(Related: Death, Imagination, Love, Disaster)
"Jealousy is love bed of burning snarl."
- George Meredith
(Related: Love, Bed, Jealousy)
"I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man."
- George Meredith
(Related: Man, Will, Woman)
"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
(Related: Act)
"A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power."
- George Meredith
(Related: Beauty, Power, Treasure, Witty, Woman)
"Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul when hot for certainties in this our life!"
- George Meredith
(Related: Soul)
"Bring the army of the faithful through."
- George Meredith
(Related: Army)
"Caricature is rough truth."
- George Meredith
(Related: Truth)
"Don't just count your years, make your years count."
- George Meredith
(Related: Years)
"I expect Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man."
- George Meredith
(Related: Man, Will, Woman)
"Always imitate the behavior of the winners when you lose."
- George Meredith
(Related: Behavior)