Famous Quotes / George Meredith
26 Quotations by George Meredith
- 1. A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what w ...
- 2. A kiss is but a kiss now! And no wave of a great flood that whirls me to the sea. But, as you will! ...
- 3. Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul when hot for certainties in this, our life!
- 4. But O the truth, the truth. The
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- 5. Caricature is rough truth.
- 6. Chance works for us when we are good captains.
- 7. Cynicism is intellectual dandyism.
- 8. I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.
- 9. I expect Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.
- 10. Jealousy is love bed of burning snarl.
- 11. Kissing don't last: cookery does!
- 12. Memoirs are the backstairs of history.
- 13. Not till the fire is dying in the grate, look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never co ...
- 14. Passions spin the plot: We are betrayed by what is false within.
- 15. Passions spin the plot: We are betrayed by what is false within.
- 16. Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity.
- 17. Prayer for worldly goods is worse than fruitless, but prayer for strength of soul is that passion of ...
- 18. She heard the snuffle of hypocrisy in her prayer. She had to cease to pray.
- 19. She poured a little social sewage into his ears.
- 20. Speech is the small change of silence.