I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.
GEORGE MEREDITH, The Ordeal of Richard Feverel
Kissing don't last: cookery do!
GEORGE MEREDITH, The Ordeal of Richard Feverel
- Swift doth young Love flee,
- And we stand wakened, shivering from our dream.
GEORGE MEREDITH, Modern Love
What a woman thinks of women is the test of her nature.
GEORGE MEREDITH, Diana of the Crossways
Speech is the small change of Silence.
GEORGE MEREDITH, The Ordeal of Richard Feverel
- Full lasting is the song, though he,
- The singer, passes.
GEORGE MEREDITH, "The Thrush in February"
Always imitate the behavior of the winners when you lose.
GEORGE MEREDITH, Rhoda Fleming
- I've studied men from my topsy-turvy
- Close, and I reckon, rather true.
- Some are fine fellows: some, right scurvy;
- Most, a dash between the two.
GEORGE MEREDITH, "Juggling Jerry"
The well of true wit is truth itself.
GEORGE MEREDITH, Diana of the Crossways
- How many a thing which we cast to the ground,
- When others pick it up, becomes a gem!
GEORGE MEREDITH, Modern Love
A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power.
GEORGE MEREDITH, Diana of the Crossways
- See ye not, Courtesy
- Is the true Alchemy,
- Turning to gold all it touches and tries?
GEORGE MEREDITH, "The Song of Courtesy"
- Behold the life at ease; it drifts,
- The sharpened life commands its course.
GEORGE MEREDITH, "Hard Weather"
- In tragic life, God wot,
- No villain need be! Passions spin the plot:
- We are betrayed by what is false within.
GEORGE MEREDITH, Modern Love
Cynicism is intellectual dandyism.
GEORGE MEREDITH, The Egoist
Perfect simplicity is unconsciously audacious.
GEORGE MEREDITH, The Ordeal of Richard Feverel
- Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul
- When hot for certainties in this our life!
GEORGE MEREDITH, Modern Love
- But O the truth, the truth! the many eyes
- That look on it! the diverse things they see!
GEORGE MEREDITH, "A Ballad of Fair Ladies in Revolt"
We never know what’s in us till we stand by ourselves.
GEORGE MEREDITH, The Ordeal of Richard Feverel
And if I drink oblivion of a day,
So shorten I the stature of my soul.
GEORGE MEREDITH, Modern Love
There is nothing the body suffers that the soul may not profit by.
GEORGE MEREDITH, Diana of the Crossways
Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered.
GEORGE MEREDITH, The Ordeal of Richard Feverel
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