George Meredith Quotes

Chance works for us when we are good captains.

Kissing don't last: cookery do !

Prayer for worldly goods is worse than fruitless but prayer for strength of soul is that passion of the soul which catches the gift it seeks.

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

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

Cultivated men and women who do not skim the cream of life and are attached to the duties yet escape the harsher blows make acute and balanced observers.

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

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

Kissing don't last: cookery do.

We are betrayed by what is false within.

Memoirs are the backstairs of history.

Jealousy is love bed of burning snarl.

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

Memoirs: the backstairs of history.

Caricature is rough truth.

She heard the snuffle of hypocrisy in her prayer. She had to cease to pray.

Cynicism is intellectual dandyism without the coxcomb's feathers.

Speech is the small change of silence.

Published memoirs indicate the end of a man's activity and that he acknowledges the end.

Cynicism is intellectual dandyism.

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

Perfect simplicity is unconsciously audacious.

The well of true wit is truth itself.