George Meredith Quotes

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

  George Meredith

  Death, Nature, Garden

  George Meredith (1862). “Modern Love and Poems of the English Roadside: With Poems and Ballads”, p.203

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

  George Meredith

  Adversity, Soul, Suffering

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• Una mujer ingeniosa es un tesoro; una belleza ingeniosa es un poder.

  George Meredith

  Beauty, Witty, Treasure

  'Diana of the Crossways' (1885) ch. 1

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

  George Meredith

  Spiritual, Prayer, Men

  'The Ordeal of Richard Feverel' (1859) ch. 12

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• Caricature is rough truth.

  George Meredith

  Art, Artist, Rough

  George Meredith (1995). “The Egoist”, p.309, Wordsworth Editions

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• The debts we owe ourselves are the hardest to pay.

  George Meredith

  Debt, Pay, Hardest

  George Meredith (1922). “The Complete Works of George Meredith”, p.5567, Library of Alexandria

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• We are betrayed by what is false within

  George Meredith

  Being Yourself, Being Single, Betrayed

  'Modern Love' (1862) st. 43

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

  George Meredith

  Blessing, Good Woman

  George Meredith (1922). “The Complete Works of George Meredith”, p.603, Library of Alexandria

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• Poetry is talking on tiptoe.

  George Meredith

  Talking, Tiptoes, Poetry Is

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• We never know what's in us till we stand by ourselves.

  George Meredith

  Conoce

  "The Complete Works of George Meredith".

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• Speech is the small change of silence.

  George Meredith

  Funny, Small Changes, Silence

  'The Ordeal of Richard Feverel' (1859) ch. 34

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• How many a thing which we cast to the ground, When others pick it up, becomes a gem!

  George Meredith

  Casts, Gems, Picks

  George Meredith (1862). “Modern Love and Poems of the English Roadside: With Poems and Ballads”, p.73

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• Always imitate the behaviour of the winners when you lose.

  George Meredith

  Éxito, Deporte, Correr

  "The Complete Works of George Meredith".

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

  George Meredith

  Women, Thinking, Tests

  George Meredith (1922). “The Complete Works of George Meredith”, p.5155, Library of Alexandria

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

  George Meredith

  Men, Mind, Atheism

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

  George Meredith

  Love, Love Is, Imagination

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• Observation is the most enduring of the pleasures of life.

  George Meredith

  Pleasure, Endure, Observation

  George Meredith (1897). “Diana of the Crossways: A Novel”, p.129, Wayne State University Press

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• El cinismo es dandismo intelectual.

  George Meredith

  Intellectual, Cynicism, Dandyism

  'The Egoist' (1879) ch. 7

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• Friendship, I fancy, means one heart between two.

  George Meredith

  Heart, Mean, Two

  George Meredith (1897). “Diana of the Crossways: A Novel”, p.122, Wayne State University Press

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• My religion of life is always to be cheerful.

  George Meredith

  Cheerful, Life Is

  George Meredith, William Maxse Meredith (1913). “Letters of George Meredith: 1882-1909”

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• Los besos no duran: ¡la cocina sí!

  George Meredith

  Comida, Besos, Cocina

  'The Ordeal of Richard Feverel' (1859) ch. 28

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• As we to the brutes, poets are to us.

  George Meredith

  Poet, Brutes

  George Meredith (2008). “Diana of The Crossways”, p.225, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Darker grows the valley, more and more forgetting: So were it with me if forgetting could be willed. Tell the grassy hollow that holds the bubbling well-spring, Tell it to forget the source that keeps it filled.

  George Meredith

  Spring, Valleys, Forget

  George Meredith (1922). “The Complete Works of George Meredith”, p.8194, Library of Alexandria

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

  George Meredith

  Love, Dream, Young

  George Meredith (1922). “The Complete Works of George Meredith”, p.8027, Library of Alexandria

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

  George Meredith

  Men, Literature, Ends

  George Meredith (1894). “Lord Ormont and His Aminta (Complete)”, p.36, Library of Alexandria

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