George Meredith's Quotes

A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power.

Always imitate the behavior of the winners when you lose.

Kissing don't last: cookery do!

The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination.

Don't just count your years, make your years count.

I expect Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.

Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity.

There is nothing the body suffers the soul may not profit by.

Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered.

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.

Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul when hot for certainties in this our life!

Bring the army of the faithful through.

Caricature is rough truth.

Cynicism is intellectual dandyism.

I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.

Jealousy is love bed of burning snarl.

Memoirs are the backstairs of history.

She poured a little social sewage into his ears.

Speech is the small change of silence.

The man of science is nothing if not a poet gone wrong.

The man or country that fights priestcraft and priests is to my mind striking deeper for freedom than can be struck anywhere.

The well of true wit is truth itself.