George Meredith Quotes

Earth knows no desolation. She smells regeneration in the moist breath of decay.

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

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

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

The debts we owe ourselves are the hardest to pay.

Caricature is rough truth.

We never know what's in us till we stand by ourselves.

We are betrayed by what is false within

God's rarest blessing is, after all, a good woman!

What a woman thinks of women is the test of her nature.

Speech is the small change of silence.

Poetry is talking on tiptoe.

The man who has no mind of his own lends it to the priests.

Always imitate the behaviour of the winners when you lose.

How many a thing which we cast to the ground, When others pick it up, becomes a gem!

Faith works miracles. At least it allows time for them.

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

Observation is the most enduring of the pleasures of life.

Cynicism is intellectual dandyism.

Friendship, I fancy, means one heart between two.

My religion of life is always to be cheerful.

Kissing don't last: cookery do!

Darker grows the valley, more and more forgetting: So were it with me if forgetting could be willed. Tell the grassy hollow that holds the bubbling well-spring, Tell it to forget the source that keeps it filled.

Chance works for us when we are good captains.

As we to the brutes, poets are to us.