George Meredith
George Meredith
George Meredith, OMwas an English novelist and poet of the Victorian era...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth12 February 1828
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.
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.
women milk reason
Woman's reason is in the milk of her breasts.
eye looks diverse
But O the truth, the truth. The many eyes That look on it The diverse things they see.
thinking wit wells
The well of true wit is truth itself.
love law hard-life
Prepare, You lovers, to know Love a thing of moods: Not like hard life, of laws.
soul answers certainty-in-life
What a dusty answer gets the soul When hot for certainties in this our life!