Quotes by Meredith, George




George Meredith (February 12, 1828 - May 18, 1909) was an English novelist and poet..

"Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold, And the great price we paid for it full worth: We have it only when we are half earth. Little avails that coinage to the old!"

Meredith, George on age and aging    Share


"Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity."

Meredith, George on duty    Share

"She poured a little social sewage into his ears."

Meredith, George on gossip    Share

"The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination."

Meredith, George on imagination    Share

"Jealousy is love bed of burning snarl."

Meredith, George on jealousy    Share

"A kiss is but a kiss now! and no wave of a great flood that whirls me to the sea. But, as you will! we'll sit contentedly, and eat our pot of honey on the grave."

Meredith, George on kisses and kissing    Share

"The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures."

Meredith, George on love    Share

"Passions spin the plot: We are betrayed by what is false within."

Meredith, George on passion    Share

"Caricature is rough truth."

Meredith, George on art    Share

"Speech is the small change of silence."

Meredith, George on speech    Share

"Memoirs are the backstairs of history."

Meredith, George on biography    Share

"Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul when hot for certainties in this our life!"

Meredith, George on certainty    Share

"I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man."

Meredith, George on women
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"That rarest gift to Beauty, Common Sense!"

Meredith, George on common sense    Share

"Kissing don't last: cookery do!"

Meredith, George on cooking    Share

"Cynicism is intellectual dandyism."

Meredith, George on cynics and cynicism    Share

"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."

Meredith, George on death    Share

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