George Meredith
George Meredith
George Meredith, OMwas an English novelist and poet of the Victorian era...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth12 February 1828
song voice giving
The song seraphically free Of taint of personality, So pure that it salutes the suns The voice of one for millions, In whom the millions rejoice For giving their one spirit voice.
christian boys atheism
When I was quite a boy I had a spasm of religion which lasted six weeks... But I never since have swallowed the Christian fable.
men mind atheism
The man who has no mind of his own lends it to the priests.
done enjoy immense
Sentimentalists are they who seek to enjoy without incurring the Immense Debtorship for a thing done.
wine imagination house
A house with a great wine stored below lives in our imagination as a joyful house, fast and splendidly rooted in the soil.
men literature ends
Published memoirs indicate the end of a man's activity, and that he acknowledges the end.
book diaries her-beauty
Among the Diaries beginning with the second quarter of our century, there is frequent mention of a lady then becoming famous for her beauty and her wit: "an unusual combination," in the deliberate syllables of one of the writers, who is, however, not disposed to personal irony when speaking of her.
prayer heart heaven
Could I find a place to be alone with heaven, I would speak my heart out heaven is my need.
mean heart two
Friendship, I fancy, means one heart between two.
born my-friends
The future not being born, my friend, we will abstain from baptizing it.
spring valleys forget
Darker grows the valley, more and more forgetting: So were it with me if forgetting could be willed. Tell the grassy hollow that holds the bubbling well-spring, Tell it to forget the source that keeps it filled.
horse heart long
George Eliot has the heart of Sappho; but the face, with the long proboscis, the protruding teeth of the Apocalyptic horse, betrayed animality.
prayer passion soul
Prayer for worldly goods is worse than fruitless, but prayer for strength of soul is that passion of the soul which catches the gift it seeks.
duty felicity possession
Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity.