George Meredith Quotes

The well of true wit is truth itself.

Behold the life at ease; it drifts,
The sharpened life commands its course.

The song seraphically free
Of taint of personality,
So pure that it salutes the suns
The voice of one for millions,
In whom the millions rejoice
For giving their one spirit voice.

How many a thing which we cast to the ground,
When others pick it up, becomes a gem!

The sun is coming down to earth, and the fields and the waters shout to him golden shouts.

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

Earth, the mother of all,
Moves on her stedfast way,
Gathering, flinging, sowing.
Mortals, we live in her day,
She in her children is growing.

What a woman thinks of women is the test of her nature.

But O the truth, the truth! the many eyes
That look on it! the diverse things they see!

Cannon his name,
Cannon his voice, he came.

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.

More brain, O Lord, more brain! or we shall mar
Utterly this fair garden we might win.

Cynicism is intellectual dandyism.

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

In tragic life, God wot,
No villain need be! Passions spin the plot:
We are betrayed by what is false within.