Quotes from George Meredith

Observation is the most enduring of the pleasures of life.

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

Faith works miracles. At least it allows time for them.

Swift doth young Love flee, And we stand wakened, shivering from our dream.

The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination.

Jealousy is love bed of burning snarl.

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

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

For singing till his heaven fills, 'Tis love of earth that he instills, And ever winging up and up, Our valley is his golden cup, And he the wine which over flows To lift us with him as he goes.

Prepare, You lovers, to know Love a thing of moods: Not like hard life, of laws.

Memoirs are the backstairs of history.

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

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!

Always imitate the behavior of the winners when you lose.

Kissing don't last; cookery do!

Faith works miracles. At least it allows time for them

The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination.

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

The song seraphically freeOf taint of personality.

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

And if I drink oblivion of a day,So shorten I the stature of my soul.

Ireland gives England her soldiers, her generals too.

Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soulWhen hot for certainties in this our life!