George Meredith
George Meredith
George Meredith, OMwas an English novelist and poet of the Victorian era...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth12 February 1828
captains chance
Chance works for us when we are good captains.
love carnivals egoism
The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.
women men lasts
I expect Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.
wine heaven singing
For singing till his heaven fills, 'Tis love of earth that he instills, And ever winging up and up, Our valley is his golden cup, And he the wine which over flows To lift us with him as he goes.
love jealousy burning
Jealousy is love bed of burning snarl.
miracle
Faith works miracles. At least it allows time for them.
history memoir
Memoirs are the backstairs of history.
success sports running
Always imitate the behavior of the winners when you lose.
talking tiptoes poetry-is
Poetry is talking on tiptoe.
water golden fields
The sun is coming down to earth, and the fields and the waters shout to him golden shouts.
passion plot needs
In tragic life, God wot, No villain need be! Passions spin the plot: We are betrayed by what is false within.
horse ocean moving
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!
struggle reflection men
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.
sweet rawness comedy
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.