George Meredith Quotes - Page 3

Quotes about:

• George Eliot has the heart of Sappho; but the face, with the long proboscis, the protruding teeth of the Apocalyptic horse, betrayed animality.

  George Meredith

  Horse, Heart, Long

  7 Copy quote

• It's past parsons to console us: No, nor no doctor fetch for me: I can die without my bolus; Two of a trade, lass, never agree! Parson and Doctor!--don't they love rarely Fighting the devil in other men's fields! Stand up yourself and match him fairly: Then see how the rascal yields!

  George Meredith

  Fighting, Past, Men

  George Meredith (1862). “Modern Love and Poems of the English Roadside: With Poems and Ballads”, p.89

  5 Copy quote

• The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

  George Meredith

  Love, Carnivals, Egoism

  62 Copy quote

• Jealousy is love bed of burning snarl.

  George Meredith

  Love, Jealousy, Bed

  10 Copy quote

• That rarest gift to Beauty, Common Sense!

  George Meredith

  Beauty, Common Sense, Common

  George Meredith (1912). “Poems of George Meredith”, p.242, Library of Alexandria

  10 Copy quote

• A woman who is not quite a fool will forgive your being but a man, if you are surely that. . .

  George Meredith

  Men, Forgiving, Fool

  George Meredith (1962). “The Ordeal of Richard Feverel: A History of a Father and Son (Complete)”, p.355, Library of Alexandria

  6 Copy quote

• But O the truth, the truth. The many eyes That look on it The diverse things they see.

  George Meredith

  Eye, Looks, Diverse

  George Meredith (1922). “The Complete Works of George Meredith”, p.8225, Library of Alexandria

  6 Copy quote

• O have a care of natures that are mute!

  George Meredith

  Care, Mute

  George Meredith (1922). “The Complete Works of George Meredith”, p.8031, Library of Alexandria

  6 Copy quote

• Lovely are the curves of the white owl sweeping
  Wavy in the dusk lit by one large star.
  Lone on the fir-branch, his rattle-note unvaried,
  Brooding o'er the gloom, spins the brown eve-jar.

  George Meredith

  Stars, Sunset, Night

  1851 Poems,'Love in the Valley', stanza 5. The poemwas revised and republished in1878.

  21 Copy quote

• The well of true wit is truth itself.

  George Meredith

  Thinking, Wit, Wells

  George Meredith (2008). “Diana of The Crossways”, p.4, ReadHowYouWant.com

  6 Copy quote

• Woman's reason is in the milk of her breasts.

  George Meredith

  Women, Milk, Reason

  George Meredith (1859). “The Ordeal of Richard Feverel: A History of Father and Son”, p.336

  5 Copy quote

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

  George Meredith

  Funny Inspirational, Women, Lasts

  'The Ordeal of Richard Feverel' (1859) ch. 1

  13 Copy quote

• She whom I love is hard to catch and conquer, Hard, but O the glory of the winning were she won!

  George Meredith

  Love, Winning, Conquer

  'Love in the Valley' st. 2

  8 Copy quote

• Could I find a place to be alone with heaven,
  I would speak my heart out heaven is my need.

  George Meredith

  Prayer, Heart, Heaven

  George Meredith (1922). “The Complete Works of George Meredith”, p.8202, Library of Alexandria

  5 Copy quote

• 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.

  George Meredith

  Prayer, Passion, Soul

  George Meredith, William Maxse Meredith (1912). “1844-1881”

  5 Copy quote

• Days, when the ball of our vision
  Had eagles that flew unabashed to sun;
  When the graps on the bow was decision,
  And arrow and hand and eye were one;
  When the Pleasures, like waves to a swimmer,
  Came heaving for rapture ahead! -
  Invoke them, they dwindle, they glimmer
  As lights over mounds of the dead.

  George Meredith

  Eye, Light, Eagles

  George Meredith (1910). “The Works of George Meredith”

  5 Copy quote

• Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars.

  George Meredith

  Stars, Sunset, Night

  George Meredith (2010). “The Egoist”, p.549, Broadview Press

  10 Copy quote

• Lowly, with a broken neck, The crocus lays her cheek to mire.

  George Meredith

  Flower, Broken, Necks

  George Meredith (1922). “The Complete Works of George Meredith”, p.8374, Library of Alexandria

  26 Copy quote

• 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.

  George Meredith

  Mother, Children, Moving

  George Meredith (1912). “Poems of George Meredith”, p.293, Library of Alexandria

  5 Copy quote

• What a dusty answer gets the soul When hot for certainties in this our life!

  George Meredith

  Soul, Hot, Answers

  Modern Love st. 50 (1862)

  9 Copy quote

• 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

  Sweet, Rawness, Comedy

  George Meredith (1956). “The Egoist: A Comedy in Narrative”, p.4, Library of Alexandria

  55 Copy quote

• 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

  Struggle, Men, Reflection

  George Meredith (1922). “The Complete Works of George Meredith”, p.4327, Library of Alexandria

  5 Copy quote

• Around the ancient track marched, rank on rank, The army of unalterable law.

  George Meredith

  Army, Law, Track

  'Lucifer in Starlight'

  5 Copy quote

• Much benevolence of the passive order may be traced to a disinclination to inflict pain upon oneself.

  George Meredith

  Pain, Order, May

  'Vittoria' (1866) ch. 42

  8 Copy quote

• The man of science is nothing if not a poet gone wrong.

  George Meredith

  Men, Poetry, Gone

  8 Copy quote

Page 3 of 4

First

← Prev

1

2

3

4

Next →

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin