“The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination.”
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Famous George Meredith Quotes
“Chance works for us when we are good captains.”
Source: The Egoist
“Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered.”
“The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.”
“Faith works miracles. At least it allows time for them.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Meredith
“That rarest gift to Beauty, Common Sense!”
Source: Poems of George Meredith
Source: The Complete Works of George Meredith
“A woman who is not quite a fool will forgive your being but a man, if you are surely that. . .”
Source: The Ordeal of Richard Feverel: A History of a Father and Son (Complete)
“As we to the brutes, poets are to us.”
Source: Diana of The Crossways
“God's rarest blessing is, after all, a good woman!”
Source: The Complete Works of George Meredith
“The debts we owe ourselves are the hardest to pay.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Meredith
“See ye not, Courtesy is the true Alchemy, turning to gold all it touches and tries?”
Source: The Complete Works of George Meredith
“She whom I love is hard to catch and conquer, Hard, but O the glory of the winning were she won!”
Source: The Works of George Meredith
Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Meredith (Illustrated)
“My religion of life is always to be cheerful.”
Source: Letters of George Meredith: 1882-1909
Source: 1844-1881
“Observation is the most enduring of the pleasures of life.”
Source: Diana of the Crossways: A Novel
“Lowly, with a broken neck, The crocus lays her cheek to mire.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Meredith
Source: The Egoist
Source: The Complete Works of George Meredith
“What a dusty answer gets the soul When hot for certainties in this our life!”
“Prepare, You lovers, to know Love a thing of moods: Not like hard life, of laws.”
Source: The Egoist
“The well of true wit is truth itself.”
Source: Diana of The Crossways
“Woman's reason is in the milk of her breasts.”
Source: The Ordeal of Richard Feverel: A History of Father and Son
“Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity.”
Source: The poetical works of George Meredith: with some notes
“We know the degree of refinement in people by the matter they laugh at and the ring of the laugh.”
Source: 1844-1881