George Meredith: Civilization

George Meredith was British novelist and poet of the Victorian era. Explore interesting quotes on civilization.
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“I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.”

George Meredith book The Ordeal of Richard Feverel

Source: The Ordeal of Richard Feverel http://www.gutenberg.org/files/4412/4412.txt (1859), Ch. 1.

“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.”

George Meredith

Prelude.
The Egoist http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext99/egost11.txt (1879)

Life , Women , Men , World

“Civil limitation daunts
His utterance never; the nymphs blush, not he.”

George Meredith

An Orson of the Muse http://www.globusz.com/ebooks/MeredithPoems2/00000028.htm (1883).

“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.”

George Meredith

Prelude.
The Egoist http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext99/egost11.txt (1879)

Cooking