Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
My religion of life is always to be cheerful.
George Meredith
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
George Meredith
Age: 81 †
Born: 1828
Born: February 12
Died: 1909
Died: May 18
Novelist
Poet
Prosaist
Writer
Portsmouth
England
Cheerful
Religion
Always
Life
More quotes by George Meredith
George Eliot has the heart of Sappho but the face, with the long proboscis, the protruding teeth of the Apocalyptic horse, betrayed animality.
George Meredith
Faith works miracles. At least it allows time for them.
George Meredith
Around the ancient track marched, rank on rank, The army of unalterable law.
George Meredith
Much benevolence of the passive order may be traced to a disinclination to inflict pain upon oneself.
George Meredith
Published memoirs indicate the end of a man's activity, and that he acknowledges the end.
George Meredith
Jealousy is love bed of burning snarl.
George Meredith
Caricature is rough truth.
George Meredith
I expect Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.
George Meredith
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
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
Perfect simplicity is unconsciously audacious.
George Meredith
Heiresses are never jilted.
George Meredith
Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered.
George Meredith
The song seraphically free Of taint of personality, So pure that it salutes the suns The voice of one for millions, In whom the millions rejoice For giving their one spirit voice.
George Meredith
A witty woman is a treasure a witty beauty is a power.
George Meredith
A house with a great wine stored below lives in our imagination as a joyful house, fast and splendidly rooted in the soil.
George Meredith
We are betrayed by what is false within
George Meredith
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
Full lasting is the song, though he, / The singer, passes.
George Meredith
Always imitate the behaviour of the winners when you lose.
George Meredith