George Meredith
George Meredith
George Meredith, OMwas an English novelist and poet of the Victorian era...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth12 February 1828
pain order may
Much benevolence of the passive order may be traced to a disinclination to inflict pain upon oneself.
women thinking tests
What a woman thinks of women is the test of her nature.
laughter people laughing
We know the degree of refinement in people by the matter they laugh at and the ring of the laugh.
men poetry gone
The man of science is nothing if not a poet gone wrong.
marriage jilted heiress
Heiresses are never jilted.
stars sunset night
Lovely are the curves of the white owl sweeping Wavy in the dusk lit by one large star. Lone on the fir-branch, his rattle-note unvaried, Brooding o'er the gloom, spins the brown eve-jar.
flower broken necks
Lowly, with a broken neck, The crocus lays her cheek to mire.
pleasure endure observation
Observation is the most enduring of the pleasures of life.
stars tired dark
On a starred night Prince Lucifer uprose, Tired of his dark dominion swung the fiend . . . He reached a middle height, and at the stars, Which are the brain of heaven, he looked, and sank. Around the ancient track marched, rank on rank, The army of unalterable law.
intellectual cynicism dandyism
Cynicism is intellectual dandyism.
men forgiving fool
A woman who is not quite a fool will forgive your being but a man, if you are surely that. . .
poet brutes
As we to the brutes, poets are to us.
blessing good-woman
God's rarest blessing is, after all, a good woman!
country fighting men
The man or country that fights priestcraft and priests is to my mind striking deeper for freedom than can be struck anywhere.