119 Quotes by George Meredith

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!

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.

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.

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

I expect Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.

The man or country that fights priestcraft and priests is to my mind striking deeper for freedom than can be struck anywhere.

The man of science is nothing if not a poet gone wrong.