George Meredith

The man or country that fights priestcraft and priests is to my mind striking deeper for freedom than can be struck anywhere.

The well of true wit is truth itself.

Caricature is rough truth.

Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered.

The man of science is nothing if not a poet gone wrong.

She poured a little social sewage into his ears.

A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Bring the army of the faithful through.

I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.

Memoirs are the backstairs of history.

Cynicism is intellectual dandyism.

I expect Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.

There is nothing the body suffers the soul may not profit by.

Always imitate the behavior of the winners when you lose.

Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul when hot for certainties in this our life!

Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity.

Kissing don't last: cookery do!

Jealousy is love bed of burning snarl.

The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination.

Speech is the small change of silence.