George Meredith Quotes

Why mayn't they do what men do?' the Hero cried impetuously. 'I hate that contemptible narrow-mindedness. It's that that makes the ruin and horrors I see. Why mayn't they do what men do? I like the women who are brave enough not to be hypocrites. By Heaven! if these women are bad, I like them better than a set of hypocritical creatures who are all show, and deceive you in the end.

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

Caricature is rough truth.

Speech is the small change of silence.

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

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

Cynicism is intellectual dandyism without the coxcomb's feathers.

Memoirs: the backstairs of history.

Chance works for us when we are good captains.

Cynicism is intellectual dandyism.

Kissing don't last: cookery do.

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

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.

Perfect simplicity is unconsciously audacious.

The well of true wit is truth itself.

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

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.

Kissing don't last: cookery do !

We are betrayed by what is false within.

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