“I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.”
Source: The Ordeal of Richard Feverel http://www.gutenberg.org/files/4412/4412.txt (1859), Ch. 1.
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Famous George Meredith Quotes
“A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power.”
Ch. 1 http://books.google.com/books?id=pDlxjZ-z-woC&q=%22A+witty+woman+is+a+treasure+a+witty+beauty+is+a+power%22&pg=PA2#v=onepage.
Source: Diana of the Crossways http://www.gutenberg.org/files/4470/4470.txt (1885)
Prelude.
The Egoist http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext99/egost11.txt (1879)
Source: The Egoist http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext99/egost11.txt (1879), Ch. 14.
“Kissing don't last; cookery do!”
Source: The Ordeal of Richard Feverel http://www.gutenberg.org/files/4412/4412.txt (1859), Ch. 28.
“Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered.”
Ch. 12 http://books.google.com/books?id=n2g-AAAAYAAJ&q=%22Who+rises+from+prayer+a+better+man+his+prayer+is+answered%22&pg=PA75#v=onepage.
The Ordeal of Richard Feverel http://www.gutenberg.org/files/4412/4412.txt (1859)
George Meredith Quotes about love
The Lark Ascending http://www.ev90481.dial.pipex.com/Meredith/lark_ascending.htm, l. 65-70 (1881).
“She whom I love is hard to catch and conquer,
Hard, but O the glory of the winning were she won!”
Love in the Valley http://www.ev90481.dial.pipex.com/Meredith/love_valley.htm, st. 2 (1883).
Juggling Jerry, st. 9 (1859).
St. 30.
Modern Love http://www.ev90481.dial.pipex.com/Meredith/modern_love.htm (1862)
George Meredith Quotes about life
St. 43.
Modern Love http://www.ev90481.dial.pipex.com/Meredith/modern_love.htm (1862)
St. 50.
Modern Love http://www.ev90481.dial.pipex.com/Meredith/modern_love.htm (1862)
“Behold the life at ease; it drifts,
The sharpened life commands its course.”
Hard Weather, l. 71 (1888).
George Meredith Quotes
“God's rarest blessing is, after all, a good woman!”
Source: The Ordeal of Richard Feverel http://www.gutenberg.org/files/4412/4412.txt (1859), Ch. 33.
“Cynicism is intellectual dandyism.”
Source: The Egoist http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext99/egost11.txt (1879), Ch. 7.
“Speech is the small change of Silence.”
Source: The Ordeal of Richard Feverel http://www.gutenberg.org/files/4412/4412.txt (1859), Ch. 34.
“And if I drink oblivion of a day,
So shorten I the stature of my soul.”
St. 12.
Modern Love http://www.ev90481.dial.pipex.com/Meredith/modern_love.htm (1862)
“See ye not, Courtesy
Is the true Alchemy,
Turning to gold all it touches and tries?”
The Song of Courtesy https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1381/1381-h/1381-h.htm#page129, IV (1859).
The Woods of Westermain http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-woods-of-westermain/, st. 1 (1883).
“The actors are, it seems, the usual three:
Husband and wife and lover.”
St. 25.
Modern Love http://www.ev90481.dial.pipex.com/Meredith/modern_love.htm (1862)
“But O the truth, the truth! the many eyes
That look on it! the diverse things they see!”
A Ballad of Fair Ladies in Revolt https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-ballad-of-fair-ladies-in-revolt/ st. 16 (1883).
“"How divine is utterance!" she said. "As we to the brutes, poets are to us."”
Source: Diana of the Crossways http://www.gutenberg.org/files/4470/4470.txt (1885), Ch. 16.
Juggling Jerry http://www.poemhunter.com/p/m/poem.asp?poet=6583&poem=26458, st. 7 (1859).
“What a woman thinks of women is the test of her nature.”
Source: Diana of the Crossways http://www.gutenberg.org/files/4470/4470.txt (1885), Ch. 1.
“On a starred night Prince Lucifer uprose.
Tired of his dark dominion swung the fiend.”
Lucifer in Starlight http://www.george-macdonald.com/meredith/lucifer.htm, l. 1-2 (1883).
“The sun is coming down to earth, and the fields and the waters shout to him golden shouts.”
Source: The Ordeal of Richard Feverel http://www.gutenberg.org/files/4412/4412.txt (1859), Ch. 19.
“Ireland gives England her soldiers, her generals too.”
Source: Diana of the Crossways http://www.gutenberg.org/files/4470/4470.txt (1885), Ch. 2.
“How many a thing which we cast to the ground,
When others pick it up, becomes a gem!”
St. 41.
Compare: "Once in a golden hour / I cast to earth a seed. Up there came a flower, The people said, a weed", Alfred Tennyson, The Flower.
Modern Love http://www.ev90481.dial.pipex.com/Meredith/modern_love.htm (1862)
“The well of true wit is truth itself.”
Source: Diana of the Crossways http://www.gutenberg.org/files/4470/4470.txt (1885), Ch. 1.
“There is nothing the body suffers that the soul may not profit by.”
Source: Diana of the Crossways http://www.gutenberg.org/files/4470/4470.txt (1885), Ch. 18.
“More brain, O Lord, more brain! or we shall mar
Utterly this fair garden we might win.”
St. 48.
Modern Love http://www.ev90481.dial.pipex.com/Meredith/modern_love.htm (1862)
“Into the breast that gives the rose,
Shall I with shuddering fall?”
Ode to the Spirit of Earth in Autumn http://www.globusz.com/ebooks/MeredithPoems1/00000087.htm, st. 13 (1862).
“Civil limitation daunts
His utterance never; the nymphs blush, not he.”
An Orson of the Muse http://www.globusz.com/ebooks/MeredithPoems2/00000028.htm (1883).
St. 4.
Modern Love http://www.ev90481.dial.pipex.com/Meredith/modern_love.htm (1862)
Prelude.
The Egoist http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext99/egost11.txt (1879)
“Perfect simplicity is unconsciously audacious.”
Source: The Ordeal of Richard Feverel http://www.gutenberg.org/files/4412/4412.txt (1859), Ch. 15.
“Around the ancient track marched, rank on rank,
The army of unalterable law.”
Lucifer in Starlight, l. 13-14.
Ode to the Spirit of Earth in Autumn, st. 14.
