George Meredith, OM (12 February 1828 – 18 May 1909) was an English novelist and poet of the Victorian era. Read full biography of George Meredith →
Speech is the small change of silence.
Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul when hot for certainties in this our life!
Cynicism is intellectual dandyism.
I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.
The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination.
There is nothing the body suffers the soul may not profit by.
The man of science is nothing if not a poet gone wrong.
The man or country that fights priestcraft and priests is to my mind striking deeper for freedom than can be struck anywhere.
The well of true wit is truth itself.
George Meredith, OM (12 February 1828 – 18 May 1909) was an English novelist and poet of the Victorian era.