George Meredith
George Meredith
George Meredith, OMwas an English novelist and poet of the Victorian era...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth12 February 1828
beauty common-sense common
That rarest gift to Beauty, Common Sense!
intellectual cynicism dandyism
Cynicism is intellectual dandyism.
casts picks gems
How many a thing which we cast to the ground, When others pick it up, becomes a gem!
poet brutes
As we to the brutes, poets are to us.
blessing good-woman
God's rarest blessing is, after all, a good woman!
history memoir
Memoirs are the backstairs of history.
miracle
Faith works miracles. At least it allows time for them.
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.
stars night fire
Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars.
gossip littles ears
She poured a little social sewage into his ears.
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.
knows
We never know what’s in us till we stand by ourselves” (George Meredith, ORF)
food kissing cooking
Kissing don't last: cookery do!
success sports running
Always imitate the behavior of the winners when you lose.