Quote

God's rarest blessing is, after all, a good woman!

George Meredith

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

George Meredith
Age: 81 †
Born: 1828
Born: February 12
Died: 1909
Died: May 18
Novelist
Poet
Prosaist
Writer
Portsmouth
England
Good
Rarest
Blessing
Woman

More quotes by George Meredith

Image
It's past parsons to console us: No, nor no doctor fetch for me: I can die without my bolus Two of a trade, lass, never agree! Parson and Doctor!--don't they love rarely Fighting the devil in other men's fields! Stand up yourself and match him fairly: Then see how the rascal yields!
George Meredith
Image
Full lasting is the song, though he, / The singer, passes.
George Meredith
Image
Earth, the mother of all, Moves on her stedfast way, Gathering, flinging, sowing. Mortals, we live in her day, She in her children is growing.
George Meredith
Image
Around the ancient track marched, rank on rank, The army of unalterable law.
George Meredith
Image
A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.
George Meredith
Image
Faith works miracles. At least it allows time for them.
George Meredith
Image
She [Comedy] it is who proposes the correcting of pretentiousness, of inflation, of dulness, and of the vestiges of rawness and grossness to be found among us. She is the ultimate civilizer, the polisher, a sweet cook.
George Meredith
Image
Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered.
George Meredith
Image
Perfect simplicity is unconsciously audacious.
George Meredith
Image
That rarest gift to Beauty, Common Sense!
George Meredith
Image
A witty woman is a treasure a witty beauty is a power.
George Meredith
Image
When I was quite a boy I had a spasm of religion which lasted six weeks... But I never since have swallowed the Christian fable.
George Meredith
Image
The well of true wit is truth itself.
George Meredith
Image
What a woman thinks of women is the test of her nature.
George Meredith
Image
Sentimentalists are they who seek to enjoy without incurring the Immense Debtorship for a thing done.
George Meredith
Image
Woman's reason is in the milk of her breasts.
George Meredith
Image
Days, when the ball of our vision Had eagles that flew unabashed to sun When the graps on the bow was decision, And arrow and hand and eye were one When the Pleasures, like waves to a swimmer, Came heaving for rapture ahead! - Invoke them, they dwindle, they glimmer As lights over mounds of the dead.
George Meredith
Image
The sun is coming down to earth, and the fields and the waters shout to him golden shouts.
George Meredith
Image
Behold the life at ease it drifts, The sharpened life commands its course.
George Meredith
Image
The future not being born, my friend, we will abstain from baptizing it.
George Meredith