George Meredith
14 quotations
Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity.
She poured a little social sewage into his ears.
The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination.
Jealousy is love bed of burning snarl.
The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.
Passions spin the plot: We are betrayed by what is false within.
Caricature is rough truth.
Speech is the small change of silence.
Memoirs are the backstairs of history.
Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul when hot for certainties in this our life!
I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.
That rarest gift to Beauty, Common Sense!
Kissing don't last: cookery do!
Cynicism is intellectual dandyism.