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    Quotes and Images From The Works of George Meredith
    Quotes and Images From The Works of George Meredith
    Quotes and Images From The Works of George Meredith
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    Quotes and Images From The Works of George Meredith

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    George Meredith

    George Meredith (1828-1909) was an English author and poet active during the Victorian era. Holding radical liberal beliefs, Meredith first worked in the legal field, seeking justice and reading law. However, he soon abandoned the field when he discovered his true passion for journalism and poetry. After leaving this profession behind, Meredith partnered with a man named Edward Gryffdh Peacock, founding and publishing a private literary magazine. Meredith published poetry collections, novels, and essays, earning him the acclaim of a respected author. Praised for his integrity, intelligence, and literary skill, Meredith was nominated for seven Nobel Prizes and was appointed to the order of Merit by King Edward the Seventh in 1905.

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      Quotes and Images From The Works of George Meredith - George Meredith

      QUOTES AND IMAGES FROM GEORGE MEREDITH

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Quotes and Images From The Works of George

      Meredith, by George Meredith, Edited and Arranged by David Widger

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

      almost no restrictions whatsoever.  You may copy it, give it away or

      re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included

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      Title: Quotes and Images From The Works of George Meredith

      Author: George Meredith

      Editor: David Widger

      Release Date: August 29, 2004 [EBook #7550]

      Last Updated: October 26, 2012

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK QUOTES FROM MEREDITH ***

      Produced by David Widger

      THE WORKS OF GEORGE MEREDITH

      PROSE

      LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

      George Meredith in 1893

      The Sitting Room, Flint Cottage—May 18th 1909

      Age 35

      Age 68

      Age 69

      Age 72

      Age 80

      A lover must have his delusions, just

      as a man must have a skin

      A madman gets madder when you talk

      reason to him

      A night that had shivered repose

      A dash of conventionalism makes the

      whole civilized world kin

      A string of pearls: a woman who goes

      beyond that's in danger

      A wound of the same kind that we are

      inflicting

      A tear would have overcome him—She had

      not wept

      A tragic comedian: that is, a grand

      pretender, a self-deceiver

      A fleet of South-westerly rain-clouds

      had been met in mid-sky

      A bone in a boy's mind for him to gnaw

      and worry

      A kind of anchorage in case of

      indiscretion

      A cloud of millinery shoots me off a

      mile from a woman

      A woman's at the core of every plot man

      plotteth

      A witty woman is a treasure; a witty

      Beauty is a power

      A high wind will make a dead leaf fly

      like a bird

      A kindly sense of superiority

      A young philosopher's an old fool!

      A bird that won't roast or boil or stew

      A woman, and would therefore listen to

      nonsense

      A male devotee is within an inch of a

      miracle

      A great oration may be a sedative

      A very doubtful benefit

      A generous enemy is a friend on the

      wrong side

      A woman is hurt if you do not confide

      to her your plans

      A woman who has mastered sauces sits on

      the apex of civilization

      A style of affable omnipotence about

      the wise youth

      A maker of Proverbs—what is he but a

      narrow mind wit

      A fortress face; strong and massive,

      and honourable in ruin

      A dumb tongue can be a heavy liar

      A common age once, when he married her;

      now she had grown old

      A share of pity for the objects she

      despised

      A woman rises to her husband.  But a

      man is what he is

      A stew's a stew, and not a boiling to

      shreds

      A marriage without love is dishonour

      A plunge into the deep is of little

      moment

      A sixpence kindly meant is worth any

      crown-piece that's grudged

      A man to be trusted with the keys of

      anything

      A free-thinker startles him as a kind

      of demon

      A female free-thinker is one of Satan's

      concubines

      A wise man will not squander his

      laughter if he can help it

      A man who rejected medicine in

      extremity

      A lady's company-smile

      A country of compromise goes to pieces

      at the first cannon-shot

      A youth who is engaged in the

      occupation of eating his heart

      A whisper of cajolery in season is

      often the secret

      A superior position was offered her by

      her being silent

      A contented Irishman scarcely seems my

      countryman

      Abject sense of the lack of a

      circumference

      Above all things I detest the writing

      for money

      Above Nature, I tell him, or, we shall

      be very much below

      Absolute freedom could be the worst of

      perils

      Accidents are the specific for averting

      the maladies of age

      Accounting his tight blue tail coat and

      brass buttons a victory

      Accounting for it, is not the same as

      excusing

      Accustomed to be paid for by his

      country

      Acting is not of the high class which

      conceals the art

      Active despair is a passion that must

      be superseded

      Add on a tired pipe after dark, and a

      sound sleep to follow

      Adept in the lie implied

      Admirable scruples of an inveterate

      borrower

      Admiration of an enemy or oppressor

      doing great deeds

      Admires a girl when there's no married

      woman or widow in sight

      Adversary at once offensive and

      helpless provokes brutality

      Advised not to push at a shut gate

      Affected misapprehensions

      Affectedly gentle and unusually

      roundabout opening

      After forty, men have married their

      habits

      After five years

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