Quotes and Images From The Works of George MeredithMeredith, George
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Quotes and Images From The Works of George Meredith
Meredith, George
Quotations
Longing for love and dependence
Look within, and avoid lying
Look well behind
Look backward only to correct an error
of conduct in future
Looked as proud as if he had just
clapped down the full amount
Looking on him was listening
Loudness of the interrogation precluded
thought of an answer
Love, with his accustomed cunning
Love the poor devil
Love dies like natural decay
Love the children of Erin, when not
fretted by them
Love of men and women as a toy that I
have played with
Love of pleasure keeps us blind
children
Love and war have been compared--Both
require strategy
Love that shrieks at a mortal wound,
and bleeds humanly
Love discerns unerringly what is and
what is not duty
Love must needs be an egoism
Love is a contagious disease
Love the difficulty better than the
woman
Love, that has risen above emotion,
quite independent of craving
Love's a selfish business one has work
in hand
Loves his poets, can almost understand
what poetry means
Loving in this land: they all go mad,
straight off
Lucky accidents are anticipated only by
fools
Made of his creed a strait-jacket for
humanity
Madness that sane men enamoured can be
struck by
Magnificent in generosity; he had
little humaneness
Magnify an offence in the ratio of our
vanity
Make no effort to amuse him. He is
always occupied
Make a girl drink her tears, if they
ain't to be let fall
Making too much of it--a trick of the
vulgar
Man with a material object in aim, is
the man of his object
Man who beats his wife my first
question is, 'Do he take his tea?'
Man owes a duty to his class
Man who helps me to read the world and
men as they are
Man without a penny in his pocket, and
a gizzard full of pride
Mankind is offended by heterodoxy in
mean attire
Mare would do, and better than a dozen
horses
Mark of a fool to take everybody for a
bigger fool than himself
Marriage is an awful thing, where
there's no love
Married at forty, and I had to take her
shaped as she was
Married a wealthy manufacturer--
bartered her blood for his money
Martyrs of love or religion are madmen
Material good reverses its benefits the
more nearly we clasp it
Matter that is not nourishing to brains
Maxims of her own on the subject of
rising and getting the worm
May lull themselves with their
wakefulness
May not one love, not craving to be
beloved?
Meant to vanquish her with the
dominating patience
Meditations upon the errors of the
general man, as a cover
Memory inspired by the sensations
Men overweeningly in love with their
creations
Men do not play truant from home at
sixty years of age
Men they regard as their natural prey
Men bore the blame, though the women
were rightly punished
Men must fight: the law is only a
quieter field for them
Men in love are children with their
mistresses
Men love to boast of things nobody else
has seen
Men who believe that there is a virtue
in imprecations
Men had not pleased him of late
Mental and moral neuters
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