119 Quotes by George Meredith

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

Each one of an affectionate couple may be willing, as we say, to die for each other, yet unwilling to utter the agreeable word at the right moment.

Why mayn’t they do what men do?′ the Hero cried impetuously. ‘I hate that contemptible narrow-mindedness. It’s that that makes the ruin and horrors I see. Why mayn’t they do what men do? I like the women who are brave enough not to be hypocrites. By Heaven! if these women are bad, I like them better than a set of hypocritical creatures who are all show, and deceive you in the end.

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

Kissing don’t last: cookery do!

Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul When hot for certainties in this our life! – In tragic hints here see what evermore Moves dark as yonder midnight ocean’s force, Thundering like ramping hosts of warrior horse, To throw that faint thin fine upon the shore!

The stench of the trail of Ego in our History. It is ego – ego, the fountain cry, origin, sole source of war.

A kiss is but a kiss now! and no wave of a great flood that whirls me to the sea. But, as you will! we’ll sit contentedly, and eat our pot of honey on the grave.

It is the devil’s masterstroke to get us to accuse him.