Quotations from the Project Gutenberg Editions of the Collected Works of George MeredithMeredith, George
General
Quotations from the Project Gutenberg Editions of the Collected Works of George Meredith
Meredith, George
English literature; Quotations
Paint themselves pure white, to the obliteration of minor spots
Parliament, is the best of occupations for idle men
Partake of a morning draught
Passion is not invariably love
Passion, he says, is noble strength on fire
Passion does not inspire dark appetite--Dainty innocence does
Passion added to a bowl of reason makes a sophist's mess
Past, future, and present, the three weights upon humanity
Past fairness, vaguely like a snow landscape in the thaw
Patience is the pestilence
Patronizing woman
Paying compliments and spoiling a game!
Payment is no more so than to restore money held in trust
Peace, I do pray, for the husband-haunted wife
Peace-party which opposed was the actual cause of the war
Pebble may roll where it likes--not so the costly jewel
Peculiar subdued form of laughter through the nose
People who can lose themselves in a ray of fancy at any season
People is one of your Radical big words that burst at a query
People of a provocative prosperity
People with whom a mute conformity is as good as worship
People were virtuous in past days: they counted their sinners
Perhaps inspire him, if he would let her breathe
Period of his life a man becomes too voraciously constant
Persist, if thou wouldst truly reach thine ends
Person in another world beyond this world of blood
Perused it, and did not recognize herself in her language
Pessimy is invulnerable
Petty concessions are signs of weakness to the unsatisfied
Philip was a Spartan for keeping his feelings under
Philosophy skimmed, and realistic romances deep-sounded
Pitiful conceit in men
Planting the past in the present like a perceptible ghost
Play second fiddle without looking foolish
Play the great game of blunders
Pleasant companion, who did not play the woman obtrusively among men
Please to be pathetic on that subject after I am wrinkled
Pleasure sat like an inextinguishable light on her face
Pleasure-giving laws that make the curves we recognize as beauty
Poetic romance is delusion
Policy seems to petrify their minds
Polished barbarism
Politics as well as the other diseases
Poor mortals are not in the habit of climbing Olympus to ask
Portrait of himself by the artist
Practical for having an addiction to the palpable
Practical or not, the good people affectingly wish to be
Prayer for an object is the cajolery of an idol
Press, which had kindled, proceeded to extinguished
Presumptuous belief
Pride is the God of Pagans
Pride in being always myself
Primitive appetite for noise
Principle of examining your hypothesis before you proceed to decide by it
Procrastination and excessive scrupulousness
Professional Puritans
Professional widows
Profound belief in her partiality for him
Propitiate common sense on behalf of what seems tolerably absurd
Protestant clergy the social police of the English middle-class
Providence and her parents were not forgiven
Published Memoirs indicate the end of a man's activity
Puns are the smallpox of the language
Push me to condense my thoughts to a tight ball
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
Reviews
Reviews
No reviews yet
Be the first to share your thoughts on this work.
Elsewhere in the archive
Join the Discussion
Join the discussion
Sign in to leave a comment or review.
Sign InorCreate an account