Best George Meredith Quotes

Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity.

Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul when hot for certainties in this our life!

We who have seen Italia in the throes,Half risen but to be hurled to ground, and now,Like a ripe field of wheat where once drove plough,All bounteous as she is fair, we think of thoseWho blew the breath of life into her frame:Cavour, Mazzini, Garibaldi: Three:Her Brain, her Soul, her Sword; and set her freeFrom ruinous discords, with one lustrous aim.

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

Passions spin the plot: We are betrayed by what is false within.

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

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.

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

She poured a little social sewage into his ears.

Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold, And the great price we paid for it full worth: We have it only when we are half earth. Little avails that coinage to the old!

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.