About George Meredith: George Meredith was an English novelist and poet of the Victorian era.
A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power.
Don't just count your years, make your years count.
I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.
Perfect simplicity is unconsciously audacious.
Why mayn't they do what men do?' the Hero cried impetuously. 'I hate that contemptible narrow-mindedness. It's that that makes the ruin and horrors I see. Why mayn't they do what men do? I like the women who are brave enough not to be hypocrites. By ...
A woman who is not quite a fool will forgive your being but a man, if you are surely that. . .
The man or country that fights priestcraft and priests is to my mind striking deeper for freedom than can be struck anywhere.
Speech is the small change of silence.
Memoirs are the backstairs of history.
The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination.
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.
Jealousy is love bed of burning snarl.
Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul when hot for certainties in this our life!
Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered.
I expect Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.
She poured a little social sewage into his ears.
Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity.
Kissing don't last: cookery do!
Bring the army of the faithful through.
Always imitate the behavior of the winners when you lose.
