119 Quotes by George Meredith

Jealousy is love bed of burning snarl.

Faith works miracles. At least it allows time for them.

Memoirs are the backstairs of history.

Poetry is talking on tiptoe.

The sun is coming down to earth, and the fields and the waters shout to him golden shouts.

In tragic life, God wot, No villain need be! Passions spin the plot: We are betrayed by what is false within.

Comedy is a game played to throw reflections upon social life, and it deals with human nature in the drawing-room of civilized men and women, where we have no dust of the struggling outer world, no mire, no violent crashes, to make the correctness of the representation convincing.

She [Comedy] it is who proposes the correcting of pretentiousness, of inflation, of dulness, and of the vestiges of rawness and grossness to be found among us. She is the ultimate civilizer, the polisher, a sweet cook.

The song seraphically free Of taint of personality, So pure that it salutes the suns The voice of one for millions, In whom the millions rejoice For giving their one spirit voice.