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
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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-consoled when they are not
self-justified
Self, was digging pits for comfort to
flow in
Self-incense
Self-worship, which is often
self-distrust
Self-deceiver may be a persuasive
deceiver of another
Selfishness and icy inaccessibility to
emotion
Semblance of a tombstone lady beside
her lord
Sense, even if they can't understand
it, flatters them so
Sensitiveness to the sting, which is
not allowed to poison
Sentimentality puts up infant hands for
absolution
Serene presumption
Service of watering the dry and drying
the damp (Whiskey)
Seventy, when most men are reaping and
stacking their sins
Sham spiritualism
Share of foulness to them that are for
scouring the chamber
She marries, and it's the end of her
sparkling
She seems honest, and that is the most
we can hope of girls
She had sunk her intelligence in her
sensations
She had a fatal attraction for antiques
She had great awe of the word
'business'
She ran through delusion and delusion,
exhausting each
She, not disinclined to dilute her
grief
She was unworthy to be the wife of a
tailor
She did not detest the Countess because
she could not like her
She endured meekly, when there was no
meekness
She was perhaps a little the taller of
the two
She thought that friendship was sweeter
than love
She herself did not like to be seen
eating in public
She had a thirsting mind
She was sick of personal freedom
She believed friendship practicable
between men and women
She had to be the hypocrite or else--
leap
She was at liberty to weep if she
pleased
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