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