“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.

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update Feb. 13, 2025. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man." by George Meredith?
George Meredith photo
George Meredith 45
British novelist and poet of the Victorian era 1828–1909

Related quotes

Robert Jordan photo

“I expect a civil word for a civil word!”

Robert Jordan (1948–2007) American writer

Matrim Cauthon to Berelain
(15 September 1992)

Joseph Conrad photo
Denis Diderot photo

“There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.”

Denis Diderot (1713–1784) French Enlightenment philosopher and encyclopædist

"On Women" (1772), as translated in Selected Writings (1966) edited by Lester G. Crocker

Richelle Mead photo
Pierre-Simon Laplace photo

“"The last thing we expect of you, General, is a lesson in geometry!"”

Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749–1827) French mathematician and astronomer

"La dernière chose que nous attendions de vous, Général, est une leçon de géométrie !"
Laplace to Napoléon, after the latter had reported on some new elementary geometry results[citation needed]

Hazrat Inayat Khan photo

“To those who expect the Teacher to be a man, a man will bring the message; to those who expect the Teacher to be a woman, a woman must deliver it. To those who call on God, God comes. To those who knock at the door of Satan, Satan answers. There is an answer to every call.”

Hazrat Inayat Khan (1882–1927) Indian Sufi

Vol. I, The Way of Illumination Section I - The Way of Illumination, Part III : The Sufi http://wahiduddin.net/mv2/I/I_I_3.htm
The Spiritual Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan
Context: What is the Sufi's belief regarding the coming of a World Teacher, or, as some speak if it, the "Second Coming of Christ?" The Sufi is free from beliefs and disbeliefs, and yet gives every liberty to people to have their own opinion. There is no doubt that if an individual or a multitude believe that a teacher or a reformer will come, he will surely come to them. Similarly, in the case of those who do not believe that any teacher or reformer will come, to them he will not come. To those who expect the Teacher to be a man, a man will bring the message; to those who expect the Teacher to be a woman, a woman must deliver it. To those who call on God, God comes. To those who knock at the door of Satan, Satan answers. There is an answer to every call. To a Sufi the Teacher is never absent, whether he comes in one form or in a thousand forms he is always one to him, and the same One he recognizes to be in all, and all Teachers he sees in his one Teacher alone. For a Sufi, the self within, the self without, the kingdom of the earth, the kingdom of heaven, the whole being is his teacher, and his every moment is engaged in acquiring knowledge. For some, the Teacher has already come and gone, for others the Teacher may still come, but for a Sufi the Teacher has always been and will remain with him forever.

George Robert Sims photo

“Lor’, but women’s rum cattle to deal with, the first man found that to his cost,
And I reckon it’s just through a woman the last man on earth’ll be lost.”

George Robert Sims (1847–1922) English journalist, poet, dramatist, novelist

Dagonet Ballads. Moll Jarvis o’ Morley.

Anaïs Nin photo
Marilyn Monroe photo

“How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.”

Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer

Source: Marilyn: Her Life In Own Words

Related topics