Quotations from the Project Gutenberg Editions of the Collected Works of George MeredithMeredith, George
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Quotations from the Project Gutenberg Editions of the Collected Works of George Meredith
Meredith, George
English literature; Quotations
Push indolent unreason to gain the delusion of happiness
Put material aid at a lower mark than gentleness
Put into her woman's harness of the bit and the blinkers
Puzzle to connect the foregoing and the succeeding
Question with some whether idiots should live
Question the gain of such an expenditure of energy
Quick to understand, she is in the quick of understanding
Quixottry is agreeable reading, a silly performance
Rage of a conceited schemer tricked
Rapture of obliviousness
Rare men of honour who can command their passion
Rare as epic song is the man who is thorough in what he does
Rarely exacted obedience, and she was spontaneously obeyed
Read with his eyes when you meet him this morning
Read one another perfectly in their mutual hypocrisies
Read deep and not be baffled by inconsistencies
Ready is the ardent mind to take footing on the last thing done
Real happiness is a state of dulness
Rebellion against society and advocacy of humanity run counter
Rebukes which give immeasurable rebounds
Recalling her to the subject-matter with all the patience
Reflection upon a statement is its lightning in advance
Refuge in the Castle of Negation against the whole army of facts
Regularity of the grin of dentistry
Rejoicing they have in their common agreement
Religion is the one refuge from women
Religion condones offences: Philosophy has no forgiveness
Reluctant to take the life of flowers for a whim
Remarked that the young men must fight it out together
Repeatedly, in contempt of the disgust of iteration
Reproof of such supererogatory counsel
Requiring natural services from her in the button department
Respect one another's affectations
Respected the vegetable yet more than he esteemed the flower
Revived for them so much of themselves
Rewards, together with the expectations, of the virtuous
Rhoda will love you. She is firm when she loves
Rich and poor 's all right, if I'm rich and you're poor
Ripe with oft telling and old is the tale
Rogue on the tremble of detection
Rose was much behind her age
Rose! what have I done? 'Nothing at all,' she said
Rumour for the nonce had a stronger spice of truth than usual
Said she was what she would have given her hand not to be
Salt of earth, to whom their salt must serve for nourishment
Satirist too devotedly loves his lash to be a persuasive teacher
Satirist is an executioner by profession
Says you're so clever you ought to be a man
Scorn titles which did not distinguish practical offices
Scorned him for listening to the hesitations (hers)
Scotchman's metaphysics; you know nothing clear
Screams of an uninjured lady
Second fiddle; he could only mean what she meant
Secret of the art was his meaning what he said
Secrets throw on the outsiders the onus of raising a scandal
Seed-Time passed thus smoothly, and adolescence came on
Self, was digging pits for comfort to flow in
Self-consoled when they are not self-justified
Self-deceiver may be a persuasive deceiver of another
Self-incense
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