Quotes by George Meredith

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

“Kissing don't last: cookery do !”

“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...”

“Perfect simplicity is unconsciously audacious.”

“Memoirs are the backstairs of history.”

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

“Jealousy is love bed of burning snarl.”

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

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

“Caricature is rough truth.”

“Cynicism is intellectual dandyism without the coxcomb's feathers.”

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

“Kissing don't last: cookery do.”

“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.”

“Cynicism is intellectual dandyism.”

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

“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.”

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

“Chance works for us when we are good captains.”