George Meredith Quotes and Quotations
There is nothing the body suffers which the soul may not profit by.
Caricature is rough truth.
Cynicism is intellectual dandyism, without the coxcomb's feathers.
Kissing don't last: cookery do.
Published memoirs indicate the end of a man's activity, and that he acknowledges the end.
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.
Speech is the small change of silence.
The well of true wit is truth itself.
Memoirs: the backstairs of history.
She heard the snuffle of hypocrisy in her prayer. She had to cease to pray.
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.
Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered.
Cynicism is intellectual dandyism.
We are betrayed by what is false within.
Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul when hot for certainties in this, our life!
Chance works for us when we are good captains.
There is nothing the body suffers which the soul may not profit by.