George Meredith quotes

George Meredith was an English novelist and poet, celebrated for his innovative style and psychological insight. His works often explored themes of social change, human nature, and the complexities of relationships. He influenced later writers and is remembered as a significant figure in Victorian literature. Here are 72 of his quotes:

A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power. (George Meredith)
Speech is the small change of silence. View quote
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I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man. View quote
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Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered. View quote
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Cynicism is intellectual dandyism. View quote
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The well of true wit is truth itself. View quote
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Always imitate the behavior of the winners when you lose. View quote
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Kissing don't last: cookery do! View quote
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She whom I love is hard to catch and conquer, Hard, but O the glory of the winning were she won. View quote
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There is nothing the body suffers the soul may not profit by. View quote
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The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination. (George Meredith)
What a woman thinks of women is the test of her nature. View quote
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Perfect simplicity is unconsciously audacious. View quote
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The sun is coming down to earth, and the fields and the waters shout to him golden shouts. View quote
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Comedy is a game played to throw reflections upon social life, and it deals with human nature in the drawing-room of civilized men and women, where we have no dust of the struggling outer world, no mire, no violent crashes, to make the correctness of the representation convincing. View quote
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Jealousy is love bed of burning snarl. View quote
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She [Comedy] it is who proposes the correcting of pretentiousness, of inflation, of dulness, and of the vestiges of rawness and grossness to be found among us. She is the ultimate civilizer, the polisher, a sweet cook. View quote
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Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul when hot for certainties in this our life! View quote
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But O the truth, the truth. The many eyes That look on it! The diverse things they see. View quote
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Full lasting is the song, though he, The singer, passes. View quote
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The song seraphically free Of taint of personality, So pure that it salutes the suns The voice of one for millions, In whom the millions rejoice For giving their one spirit voice. (George Meredith)
How many a thing which we cast to the ground, When others pick it up, becomes a gem! View quote
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For singing till his heaven fills, 'Tis love of earth that he instils, And ever winging up and up, Our valley is his golden cup, And he the wine which overflows To lift us with him as he goes. View quote
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Around the ancient track marched, rank on rank, The army of unalterable law. View quote
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Earth, the mother of all, Moves on her stedfast way, Gathering, flinging, sowing. Mortals, we live in her day, She in her children is growing. View quote
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George Meredith

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Occupation: British Novelist
Born: February 12, 1828
Died: May 18, 1909
Quotes count: 72
Wikipedia: George Meredith

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