1828-1909, British Author
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 – [Death and Dying]
A kiss is but a kiss now! and no wave of a great flood that whirls me to the sea. But, as you will! we'll sit contentedly, and eat our pot of honey on the grave.
George Meredith – [Kisses and Kissing]
Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul when hot for certainties in this our life!
George Meredith – [Certainty]
Caricature is rough truth.
George Meredith – [Arts and Artists]
Cynicism is intellectual dandyism.
George Meredith – [Cynics and Cynicism]
I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.
George Meredith – [Women]
Jealousy is love bed of burning snarl.
George Meredith – [Jealousy]
Kissing don't last: cookery do!
George Meredith – [Cooking]
Memoirs are the backstairs of history.
George Meredith – [Biography]
Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold, And the great price we paid for it full worth: We have it only when we are half earth. Little avails that coinage to the old!
George Meredith – [Age and Aging]
Passions spin the plot: We are betrayed by what is false within.
George Meredith – [Passion]
Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity.
George Meredith – [Duty]
She poured a little social sewage into his ears.
George Meredith – [Gossip]
Speech is the small change of silence.
George Meredith – [Speech]
That rarest gift to Beauty, Common Sense!
George Meredith – [Common Sense]
The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination.
George Meredith – [Imagination]
The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.
George Meredith – [Love]