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Thursday, May 31, 2012

George Meredith Quotes


"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."
"Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul when hot for certainties in this our life!"
"Caricature is rough truth."
"Cynicism is intellectual dandyism."
"Don't just count your years, make your years count."
"I expect Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man."
"Memoirs are the backstairs of history."
"Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity."
"She poured a little social sewage into his ears."
"Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered."

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