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
Smallest of our gratifications in life could give a happy tone
Smart remarks have their measured distances
Smile she had in reserve for serviceable persons
Smoky receptacle cherishing millions
Smothered in its pudding-bed of the grotesque (obesity)
Snatch her from a possessor who forfeited by undervaluing her
Snuffle of hypocrisy in her prayer
So are great deeds judged when the danger's past (as easy)
So indulgent when they drop their blot on a lady's character
So long as we do not know that we are performing any remarkable feat
So it is when you play at Life! When you will not go straight
So says the minute Years are before you
So much for morality in those days!
So the frog telleth tadpoles
Socially and politically mean one thing in the end
Soft slumber of a strength never yet called forth
Solitude is pasturage for a suspicion
Some so-called laws of honour
Something of the hare in us when the hounds are full cry
Sort of religion with her to believe no wrong of you
South-western Island has few attractions to other than invalids
Spare me that word "female" as long as you live
Speech that has to be hauled from the depths usually betrays
Speech was a scourge to her sense of hearing
Speech is poor where emotion is extreme
Spiritualism, and on the balm that it was
Stand not in my way, nor follow me too far
Startled by the criticism in laughter
State of feverish patriotism
Statesman who stooped to conquer fact through fiction
Statistics are according to their conjurors
Steady shakes them
Story that she believed indeed, but had not quite sensibly felt
Strain to see in the utter dark, and nothing can come of that
Straining for common talk, and showing the strain
Strength in love is the sole sincerity
Strengthening the backbone for a bend of the knee in calamity
Stultification of one's feelings and ideas
Style is the mantle of greatness
Style resembling either early architecture or utter dilapidation
Subterranean recess for Nature against the Institutions of Man
Such a man was banned by the world, which was to be despised?
Suggestion of possible danger might more dangerous than silence
Sunning itself in the glass of Envy
Suspects all young men and most young women
Suspicion was her best witness
Sweet treasure before which lies a dragon sleeping
Sweetest on earth to her was to be prized by her brother
Swell and illuminate citizen prose to a princely poetic
Sympathy is for proving, not prating
Taint of the hypocrisy which comes with shame
Take 'em somethin' like Providence--as they come
Taking oath, as it were, by their lower nature
Tale, which leaves the man's mind at home
Task of reclaiming a bad man is extremely seductive to good women
Taste a wound from the lightest touch, and they nurse the venom
Tears that dried as soon as they had served their end
Tears are the way of women and their comfort
Tears of men sink plummet-deep
Tears of such a man have more of blood than of water in them
Telling her anything, she makes half a face in anticipation
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