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