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George Meredith
46 quotes
“First of earthly singers, the sun-loved rill.”
George Meredith (1828–1909) said by 1909 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“See ye not, Courtesy Is the true Alchemy, Turning to gold all it touches and tries?”
George Meredith (1828–1909) first seen 1859 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Song of Courtesy, IV (1859)
“I've studied men from my topsy-turvy Close, and I reckon, rather true. Some are fine fellows: some, right scurvy; Most, a dash between the two.”
George Meredith (1828–1909) first seen 1859 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Juggling Jerry, st. 7 (1859)
“It's past parsons to console us: No, nor no doctor fetch for me: I can die without my bolus; Two of a trade, lass, never agree! Parson and Doctor!--don't they love rarely Fighting the devil in other men's fields! Stand up yourself and match him fairly: Then see how the rascal yields!”
George Meredith (1828–1909) first seen 1859 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Juggling Jerry, st. 9 (1859)
“Into the breast that gives the rose, Shall I with shuddering fall?”
George Meredith (1828–1909) first seen 1862 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ode to the Spirit of Earth in Autumn, st. 13 (1862)
“Earth, the mother of all, Moves on her stedfast way, Gathering, flinging, sowing. Mortals, we live in her day, She in her children is growing.”
George Meredith (1828–1909) said by 1909 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For singing till his heaven fills, 'Tis love of earth that he instils, And ever winging up and up, Our valley is his golden cup, And he the wine which overflows To lift us with him as he goes.”
George Meredith (1828–1909) first seen 1881 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Lark Ascending, l. 65-70 (1881)
“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.”
George Meredith (1828–1909) said by 1909 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But O the truth, the truth! the many eyes That look on it! the diverse things they see!”
George Meredith (1828–1909) first seen 1883 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Ballad of Fair Ladies in Revolt st. 16 (1883)
“On a starred night Prince Lucifer uprose. Tired of his dark dominion swung the fiend.”
George Meredith (1828–1909) first seen 1883 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Lucifer in Starlight, l. 1-2 (1883)
“Around the ancient track marched, rank on rank, The army of unalterable law.”
George Meredith (1828–1909) said by 1909 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Enter these enchanted woods, You who dare. Nothing harms beneath the leaves More than waves a swimmer cleaves. Toss your heart up with the lark, Foot at peace with mouse and worm, Fair you fare. Only at a dread of dark Quaver, and they quit their form: Thousand eyeballs under hoods Have you by the hair. Enter these enchanted woods, You who dare.”
George Meredith (1828–1909) first seen 1883 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Woods of Westermain, st. 1 (1883)
“She whom I love is hard to catch and conquer, Hard, but O the glory of the winning were she won!”
George Meredith (1828–1909) first seen 1883 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Love in the Valley, st. 2 (1883)
“Darker grows the valley, more and more forgetting: So were it with me if forgetting could be willed. Tell the grassy hollow that holds the bubbling well-spring, Tell it to forget the source that keeps it filled.”
George Meredith (1828–1909) said by 1909 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Civil limitation daunts His utterance never; the nymphs blush, not he.”
George Meredith (1828–1909) first seen 1883 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: An Orson of the Muse (1883)
“With patient inattention hear him prate.”
George Meredith (1828–1909) first seen 1887 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Bellerophon, st. 4 (1887)
“Full lasting is the song, though he, The singer, passes”
George Meredith (1828–1909) first seen 1888 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Thrush in February, st. 17 (1888)
“Behold the life at ease; it drifts, The sharpened life commands its course.”
George Meredith (1828–1909) first seen 1888 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Hard Weather, l. 71 (1888)
“All wisdom's armoury this man could wield”
George Meredith (1828–1909) first seen 1892 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Sage Enamoured (1892)
“Cannon his name, Cannon his voice, he came.”
George Meredith (1828–1909) first seen 1898 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Napoléon, I (1898)
“The sea foamed like the mouth of madness, as the Genie sped thunder-like over it.”
George Meredith (1828–1909) said by 1909 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.”
George Meredith (1828–1909) said by 1909 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered.”
George Meredith (1828–1909) said by 1909 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Perfect simplicity is unconsciously audacious.”
George Meredith (1828–1909) said by 1909 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The sun is coming down to earth, and the fields and the waters shout to him golden shouts.”
George Meredith (1828–1909) said by 1909 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Kissing don't last; cookery do!”
George Meredith (1828–1909) said by 1909 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“God's rarest blessing is, after all, a good woman!”
George Meredith (1828–1909) said by 1909 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Speech is the small change of Silence.”
George Meredith (1828–1909) said by 1909 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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 pay for it full worth: We have it only when we are half earth.”
George Meredith (1828–1909) said by 1909 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And if I drink oblivion of a day, So shorten I the stature of my soul.”
George Meredith (1828–1909) said by 1909 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The actors are, it seems, the usual three: Husband and wife and lover.”
George Meredith (1828–1909) said by 1909 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What are we first? First, animals; and next Intelligences at a leap; on whom Pale lies the distant shadow of the tomb, And all that draweth on the tomb for text. Into which state comes Love, the crowning sun: Beneath whose light the shadow loses form. We are the lords of life, and life is warm. Intelligence and instinct now are one. But nature says: 'My children most they seem When they least know me: therefore I decree That they shall suffer.' Swift doth young Love flee, And we stand wakened, shivering from our dream. Then if we study Nature we are wise.”
George Meredith (1828–1909) said by 1909 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“How many a thing which we cast to the ground, When others pick it up, becomes a gem!”
George Meredith (1828–1909) said by 1909 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In tragic life, God wot, No villain need be! Passions spin the plot: We are betrayed by what is false within.”
George Meredith (1828–1909) said by 1909 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“More brain, O Lord, more brain! or we shall mar Utterly this fair garden we might win.”
George Meredith (1828–1909) said by 1909 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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!”
George Meredith (1828–1909) said by 1909 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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.”
George Meredith (1828–1909) said by 1909 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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.”
George Meredith (1828–1909) said by 1909 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Cynicism is intellectual dandyism.”
George Meredith (1828–1909) said by 1909 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In...the book of Egoism, it is written, possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity.”
George Meredith (1828–1909) said by 1909 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power.”
George Meredith (1828–1909) said by 1909 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What a woman thinks of women is the test of her nature.”
George Meredith (1828–1909) said by 1909 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The well of true wit is truth itself.”
George Meredith (1828–1909) said by 1909 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Ireland gives England her soldiers, her generals too.”
George Meredith (1828–1909) said by 1909 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“How divine is utterance!" she said. "As we to the brutes, poets are to us.”
George Meredith (1828–1909) said by 1909 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is nothing the body suffers that the soul may not profit by.”
George Meredith (1828–1909) said by 1909 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source