George Meredith Quotes

Memoirs: the backstairs of history.
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The well of true wit is truth itself.
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Speech is the small change of silence.
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We are betrayed by what is false within.
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Chance works for us when we are good captains.
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Who rises from prayer a better man his prayer is answered.
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Prayer for worldly goods is worse than fruitless but prayer for strength of soul is that passion of the soul which catches the gift it seeks.
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She heard the snuffle of hypocrisy in her prayer. She had to cease to pray.
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Cynicism is intellectual dandyism.
George Meredith
Cultivated men and women who do not skim the cream of life and are attached to the duties yet escape the harsher blows make acute and balanced observers.
George Meredith
We are betrayed by what is false within.
George Meredith
Chance works for us when we are good captains.
George Meredith
Who rises from prayer a better man his prayer is answered.
George Meredith
Prayer for worldly goods is worse than fruitless but prayer for strength of soul is that passion of the soul which catches the gift it seeks.
George Meredith
She heard the snuffle of hypocrisy in her prayer. She had to cease to pray.
George Meredith
Cynicism is intellectual dandyism.
George Meredith
Cultivated men and women who do not skim the cream of life and are attached to the duties yet escape the harsher blows make acute and balanced observers.
George Meredith
Published memoirs indicate the end of a man's activity and that he acknowledges the end.
George Meredith
Kissing don't last: cookery do.
George Meredith
Ah what a dusty answer gets the soul when hot for certainties in this our life!
George Meredith
Cynicism is intellectual dandyism without the coxcomb's feathers.
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Caricature is rough truth.
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There is nothing the body suffers which the soul may not profit by.
George Meredith
Perfect simplicity is unconsciously audacious.
George Meredith
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 Heaven! if these women are bad, I like them better than a set of hypocritical creatures who are all show, and deceive you in the end.
George Meredith
Kissing don't last: cookery do !
George Meredith
I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.
George Meredith