George Meredith
George Meredith
George Meredith, OMwas an English novelist and poet of the Victorian era...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth12 February 1828
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.
fighting past men
It's past parsons to console us: No, nor no doctor fetch for me: I can die without my bolus; Two of a trade, lass, never agree! Parson and Doctor!--don't they love rarely Fighting the devil in other men's fields! Stand up yourself and match him fairly: Then see how the rascal yields!
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!
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.
prayer heart heaven
Could I find a place to be alone with heaven, I would speak my heart out heaven is my need.
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.
army law track
Around the ancient track marched, rank on rank, The army of unalterable law.
valentine thorns paws
I know him, February's thrush, And loud at eve he valentines On sprays that paw the naked bush Where soon will sprout the thorns and bines.
marriage jilted heiress
Heiresses are never jilted.
pain order may
Much benevolence of the passive order may be traced to a disinclination to inflict pain upon oneself.
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.
laughter people laughing
We know the degree of refinement in people by the matter they laugh at and the ring of the laugh.
civilized english-novelist
I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.