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Authors
George Meredith
English
Novelist
About the author
Kissing don't last: cookery do!
George Meredith,
English
Novelist
#Kissing
#Cookery
Memoirs are the backstairs of history.
George Meredith,
English
Novelist
#History
Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered.
George Meredith,
English
Novelist
#Man
#Prayer
Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity.
George Meredith,
English
Novelist
#Possession
#Obligation
There is nothing the body suffers the soul may not profit by.
George Meredith,
English
Novelist
#Nothing
#May
#Soul
#Body
#Profit
She poured a little social sewage into his ears.
George Meredith,
English
Novelist
Speech is the small change of silence.
George Meredith,
English
Novelist
#Change
#Speech
#Silence
The man of science is nothing if not a poet gone wrong.
George Meredith,
English
Novelist
#Nothing
#Science
#Man
#Wrong
The man or country that fights priestcraft and priests is to my mind striking deeper for freedom than can be struck anywhere.
George Meredith,
English
Novelist
#Freedom
#Country
#Man
#Mind
The well of true wit is truth itself.
George Meredith,
English
Novelist
#Truth
#Wit
Cynicism is intellectual dandyism.
George Meredith,
English
Novelist
#Cynicism
The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination.
George Meredith,
English
Novelist
#Love
#Death
#Imagination
#Disaster
Jealousy is love bed of burning snarl.
George Meredith,
English
Novelist
#Love
#Bed
#Jealousy
I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.
George Meredith,
English
Novelist
#Will
#Man
#Woman
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.
George Meredith,
English
Novelist
#Act
A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power.
George Meredith,
English
Novelist
#Power
#Woman
#Beauty
#Treasure
#Witty
Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul when hot for certainties in this our life!
George Meredith,
English
Novelist
#Soul
Bring the army of the faithful through.
George Meredith,
English
Novelist
#Army
Caricature is rough truth.
George Meredith,
English
Novelist
#Truth
Don't just count your years, make your years count.
George Meredith,
English
Novelist
#Years
I expect Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.
George Meredith,
English
Novelist
#Will
#Man
#Woman
Always imitate the behavior of the winners when you lose.
George Meredith,
English
Novelist
#Behavior