George Meredith

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

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

Speech is the small change of silence.

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

She poured a little social sewage into his ears.

Memoirs are the backstairs of history.

Kissing don't last: cookery do!

Always imitate the behavior of the winners when you lose.

Caricature is rough truth.

Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered.

There is nothing the body suffers the soul may not profit by.

Observation is the most enduring of the pleasures of life.

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

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

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.

The well of true wit is truth itself.

Don't just count your years, make your years count.

The man of science is nothing if not a poet gone wrong.

Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity.

Cynicism is intellectual dandyism.

The man or country that fights priestcraft and priests is to my mind striking deeper for freedom than can be struck anywhere.

Perfect simplicity is unconsciously audacious.

A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power.

Jealousy is love bed of burning snarl.

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

Bring the army of the faithful through.