Quotes by George Meredith

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.
– George Meredith
Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul when hot for certainties in this our life!
– George Meredith
Caricature is rough truth.
– George Meredith
Cynicism is intellectual dandyism.
– George Meredith
Don't just count your years, make your years count.
– George Meredith
I expect Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.
– George Meredith
Memoirs are the backstairs of history.
– George Meredith
Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity.
– George Meredith
She poured a little social sewage into his ears.
– George Meredith
Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered.
– George Meredith
But O the truth, the truth. The
many eyes
That look on it! The diverse things
they see.
– George Meredith
The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination.
– George Meredith
The man of science is nothing if not a poet gone wrong.
– George Meredith
Jealousy is love bed of burning snarl.
– George Meredith
A witty woman is a treasure a witty beauty is a power.
– George Meredith