Quotes from George Meredith


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    Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity.

    Possession | Obligation


    The well of true wit is truth itself.

    Truth | Wit | Itself


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

    Science | Wrong | Gone


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

    Love | Death | Disaster


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

    Freedom | Deeper | Priests


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

    Woman | Expect | Last


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

    Woman | Expect | Last


    Cynicism is intellectual dandyism.

    Cynicism


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

    Soul | Body | Profit


    Speech is the small change of silence.

    Change | Silence | Small


    She poured a little social sewage into his ears.

    Social | Ears | Poured


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

    Birthday | Count


    Bring the army of the faithful through.

    Army | Faithful | Bring


    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.

    Great | Act | Forever


    Kissing don't last: cookery do!

    Last | Cookery | Kissing


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

    Life | Soul | Hot


    Caricature is rough truth.

    Truth | Rough | Caricature


    Always imitate the behavior of the winners when you lose.

    Behavior | Winners | Lose


    Jealousy is love bed of burning snarl.

    Love | Jealousy | Bed


    Memoirs are the backstairs of history.

    History | Memoirs


       

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