The man or country that fights priestcraft and priests is to my mind striking deeper for freedom than can be struck anywhere.
About George Meredith
George Meredith was an English novelist and poet of the Victorian era. At first, his focus was poetry, influenced by John Keats among others, but Meredith gradually established a reputation as a novelist.
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Always imitate the behavior of the winners when you lose.
British novelist and poet (1828-1909)
Jealousy is love bed of burning snarl.
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Speech is the small change of silence.
British novelist and poet (1828-1909)
A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power.
British novelist and poet (1828-1909)
The man or country that fights priestcraft and priests is to my mind striking deeper for freedom than can be struck anywhere.
British novelist and poet (1828-1909)
She poured a little social sewage into his ears.
British novelist and poet (1828-1909)
Kissing don’t last: cookery do!
British novelist and poet (1828-1909)
The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination.
British novelist and poet (1828-1909)
Don’t just count your years, make your years count.
British novelist and poet (1828-1909)
The man of science is nothing if not a poet gone wrong.
British novelist and poet (1828-1909)
Memoirs are the backstairs of history.
British novelist and poet (1828-1909)
Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity.
British novelist and poet (1828-1909)
Cynicism is intellectual dandyism.
British novelist and poet (1828-1909)
Caricature is rough truth.
British novelist and poet (1828-1909)
Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul when hot for certainties in this our life!
British novelist and poet (1828-1909)
Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered.
British novelist and poet (1828-1909)
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.
British novelist and poet (1828-1909)
I expect Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.
British novelist and poet (1828-1909)
I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.
British novelist and poet (1828-1909)
Bring the army of the faithful through.
British novelist and poet (1828-1909)
The well of true wit is truth itself.
British novelist and poet (1828-1909)
There is nothing the body suffers the soul may not profit by.
British novelist and poet (1828-1909)