George Meredith
George Meredith
George Meredith, OMwas an English novelist and poet of the Victorian era...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth12 February 1828
curiosity trying gold
See ye not, Courtesy is the true Alchemy, turning to gold all it touches and tries?
cheerful life-is
My religion of life is always to be cheerful.
eye light eagles
Days, when the ball of our vision Had eagles that flew unabashed to sun; When the graps on the bow was decision, And arrow and hand and eye were one; When the Pleasures, like waves to a swimmer, Came heaving for rapture ahead! - Invoke them, they dwindle, they glimmer As lights over mounds of the dead.
love winning conquer
She whom I love is hard to catch and conquer, Hard, but O the glory of the winning were she won!
beauty common-sense common
That rarest gift to Beauty, Common Sense!
food kissing cooking
Kissing don't last: cookery do!
knows
We never know what’s in us till we stand by ourselves” (George Meredith, ORF)
kissing sea honey
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.
gossip littles ears
She poured a little social sewage into his ears.
stars night fire
Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars.
knowledge men blow
Cultivated men and women who do not skim the cream of life, and are attached to the duties, yet escape the harsher blows, make acute and balanced observers.
perfect simplicity wit
Perfect simplicity is unconsciously audacious.
prayer forever memorial
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.
love-is imagination disaster
The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination.