Quotes by George Meredith
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The man of science is nothing if not a poet gone wrong.
Always imitate the behavior of the winners when you lose.
The man or country that fights priestcraft and priests is to my mind striking deeper for freedom than can be struck anywhere.
There is nothing the body suffers the soul may not profit by.
Jealousy is love bed of burning snarl.
A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power.
Bring the army of the faithful through.
Caricature is rough truth.
Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul when hot for certainties in this our life!
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.
Cynicism is intellectual dandyism.
Memoirs are the backstairs of history.
Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered.
She poured a little social sewage into his ears.
Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity.
I expect Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.
Don't just count your years, make your years count.
Not a breath of wild air; Still as the mosses that glow On the flooring and over the lines
There is nothing the body suffers which the soul may not profit by.
Sunrays, leaning on our southern hills and lighting Wild cloud-mountains that drag the hills along, Oft ends the day of your shifting brilliant laughter Chill as a dull face frowning on a song. Ay, but shows the South-west a ripple-feathered bosom Blown to silver while the clouds are shaken and ascend Scaling the mid-heavens as they stream, there comes a sunset Rich, deep like love in beauty without end.
The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination.
I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.
Kissing don't last: cookery do!
Who rises from a prayer a better man, his prayer is answered.
Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.
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