Quotes from George Meredith

She poured a little social sewage into his ears.

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

The man who has no mind of his own lends it to the priests.

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

I've studied men from my topsy-turvy Close, and I reckon, rather true. Some are fine fellows: some, right scurvy; Most, a dash between the two.

Earth knows no desolation. She smells regeneration in the moist breath of decay.

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

Poetry is talking on tiptoe.

Cynicism is intellectual dandyism.

God's rarest blessing is, after all, a good woman!

A house with a great wine stored below lives in our imagination as a joyful house, fast and splendidly rooted in the soil.

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

A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

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

Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity.

My religion of life is always to be cheerful.

When I was quite a boy I had a spasm of religion which lasted six weeks... But I never since have swallowed the Christian fable.

Bring the army of the faithful through.

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

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.

Always imitate the behaviour of the winners when you lose.

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

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

Always imitate the behavior of the winners when you lose.