George Meredith Quotes

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

Beauty, Power, Woman

Always imitate the behavior of the winners when you lose.
George Meredith

Winners, Lose, Behavior

Kissing don't last: cookery do!
George Meredith

Last, Kissing, Cookery

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

Love, Death, Disaster

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

Woman, Last, Expect

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

Nothing, May, Soul

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

Great, Human, Once

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

Life, Soul, Hot

Bring the army of the faithful through.
George Meredith

Through, Faithful, Bring

Caricature is rough truth.
George Meredith

Truth, Rough, Caricature

Cynicism is intellectual dandyism.
George Meredith

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

Woman, Last, Expect

Jealousy is love bed of burning snarl.
George Meredith

Love, Jealousy, Bed

Memoirs are the backstairs of history.
George Meredith

History, Memoirs

Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity.
George Meredith

Object, Obligation, Possession

She poured a little social sewage into his ears.
George Meredith

She, Social, Ears

Speech is the small change of silence.
George Meredith

Change, Silence, Small

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

Science, 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

Freedom, Mind, Country

The well of true wit is truth itself.
George Meredith

Truth, True, Wit

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

Prayer, Answered, Rises

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Biography

Nationality: English

Born: February 12, 1828

Died: May 18, 1909

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