Quotes by George Meredith

• Kissing don't last: cookery do!
• Memoirs are the backstairs of history.
• Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered.
• Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity.
• There is nothing the body suffers the soul may not profit by.
• She poured a little social sewage into his ears.
• Speech is the small change of silence.
• The man of science is nothing if not a poet gone wrong.
• The man or country that fights priestcraft and priests is to my mind striking deeper for freedom than can be struck anywhere.
• The well of true wit is truth itself.
• Cynicism is intellectual dandyism.
• The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination.
• Jealousy is love bed of burning snarl.
• I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.
• 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.
• A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power.
• Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul when hot for certainties in this our life!
• Bring the army of the faithful through.
• Caricature is rough truth.
• Don't just count your years, make your years count.
• I expect Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.
• Always imitate the behavior of the winners when you lose.