119 Quotes by George Meredith

She whom I love is hard to catch and conquer, Hard, but O the glory of the winning were she won!

That rarest gift to Beauty, Common Sense!

Kissing don't last: cookery do!

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.

Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars.

Cultivated men and women who do not skim the cream of life, and are attached to the duties, yet escape the harsher blows, make acute and balanced observers.

Chance works for us when we are good captains.

The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

For singing till his heaven fills, 'Tis love of earth that he instills, And ever winging up and up, Our valley is his golden cup, And he the wine which over flows To lift us with him as he goes.