George Meredith
George Meredith
George Meredith, OMwas an English novelist and poet of the Victorian era...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth12 February 1828
desires fain fling love
Love that so desires would fain keep her changeless; / Fain would fling the net, and fain have her free.
being-yourself being-single betrayed
We are betrayed by what is false within
small-changes silence speech
Speech is the small change of silence.
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!
miracle
Faith works miracles. At least it allows time for them.
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.
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.
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.
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.