“I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.”
Source: The Ordeal of Richard Feverel
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Famous George Meredith Quotes
Source: The Egoist
“English women afraid of the weather might as well be shut up. [CLARA MIDDLETON]”
Source: The Egoist
“But O the truth, the truth. The many eyes That look on it The diverse things they see.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Meredith
“It is the devil's masterstroke to get us to accuse him”
Source: Diana of the Crossways: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition
“And if I drink oblivion of a day, / So shorten I the stature of my soul.”
Source: Poems of George Meredith
“Full lasting is the song, though he, / The singer, passes.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Meredith
“Behold the life at ease; it drifts, The sharpened life commands its course.”
Source: Poems of George Meredith
“Swift doth young Love flee, And we stand wakened, shivering from our dream.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Meredith
Source: Poems of George Meredith
“How many a thing which we cast to the ground, When others pick it up, becomes a gem!”
Source: Modern Love and Poems of the English Roadside: With Poems and Ballads
“What a woman thinks of women is the test of her nature.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Meredith
“O have a care of natures that are mute!”
Source: The Complete Works of George Meredith
Source: Modern Love and Poems of the English Roadside: With Poems and Ballads
“Around the ancient track marched, rank on rank, The army of unalterable law.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Meredith
“The sun is coming down to earth, and the fields and the waters shout to him golden shouts.”
Source: Poems of George Meredith
Source: The Complete Works of George Meredith
Source: The Egoist: A Comedy in Narrative
Source: Poems of George Meredith
Source: Poems of George Meredith
“The man who has no mind of his own lends it to the priests.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Meredith
“Published memoirs indicate the end of a man's activity, and that he acknowledges the end.”
Source: Lord Ormont and His Aminta (Complete)
Source: Diana of the Crossways: A Novel
“Could I find a place to be alone with heaven, I would speak my heart out heaven is my need.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Meredith
Source: The Egoist
“Friendship, I fancy, means one heart between two.”
Source: Diana of the Crossways: A Novel
“The future not being born, my friend, we will abstain from baptizing it.”
Source: Beauchamp's Career
“Always imitate the behaviour of the winners when you lose.”
Source: The Egoist
Source: The Complete Works of George Meredith
“Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars.”
Source: The Egoist
“Earth knows no desolation. She smells regeneration in the moist breath of decay.”
Source: Modern Love and Poems of the English Roadside: With Poems and Ballads
Source: George Meredith's Essay On Comedy and Other New Quarterly Magazine Publications: A Critical Edition
“Perfect simplicity is unconsciously audacious.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Meredith
“There is nothing the body suffers which the soul may not profit by.”