Quotes By George Meredith

A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power.

Speech is the small change of silence.

Don't just count your years, make your years count.

Memoirs are the backstairs of history.

The well of true wit is truth itself.

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.

Cynicism is intellectual dandyism.

The man of science is nothing if not a poet gone wrong.

The man or country that fights priestcraft and priests is to my mind striking deeper for freedom than can be struck anywhere.

Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity.

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

She poured a little social sewage into his ears.

Jealousy is love bed of burning snarl.

There is nothing the body suffers the soul may not profit by.

Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered.

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

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

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

Kissing don't last: cookery do!

Always imitate the behavior of the winners when you lose.

Caricature is rough truth.

Bring the army of the faithful through.