George Meredith Quotes

Most popular George Meredith Quotes

Caricature is rough truth. - George Meredith quote.
Caricature is rough truth.
— George Meredith The Egoist
Kissing don't last: cookery do! - George Meredith quote.
Kissing don't last: cookery do!
— George Meredith

cooking

The well of true wit is truth itself. - George Meredith quote.
The well of true wit is truth itself.
— George Meredith
Memoirs ... the backstairs of history. - George Meredith quote.
Memoirs ... the backstairs of history.
— George Meredith Rhoda Fleming

autobiography

Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man. - George Meredith quote.
Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.
— George Meredith

women

Who rises from Prayer a better man, his prayer is answered. - George Meredith quote.
Who rises from Prayer a better man, his prayer is answered.
— George Meredith The Ordeal of Richard Feverel

prayer

I listened as she poured a little social sewage into his ears. - George Meredith quote.
I listened as she poured a little social sewage into his ears.
— George Meredith

gossip

The truth! The many eyes that look on it! The diverse things they see. - George Meredith quote.
The truth! The many eyes that look on it! The diverse things they see.
— George Meredith
Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul
When hot for certainties in this our life! - George Meredith quote.
Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul
When hot for certainties in this our life!
— George Meredith

answers certainty

Earth knows no desolation. She smells regeneration in the moist breath of decay. - George Meredith quote.
Earth knows no desolation. She smells regeneration in the moist breath of decay.
— George Meredith
It seems to me that cynics are only happy in making the world as barren to others as they have made it for themselves. - George Meredith quote.
It seems to me that cynics are only happy in making the world as barren to others as they have made it for themselves.
— George Meredith The Egoist

cynics