Quote

Full lasting is the song, though he, / The singer, passes.

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
Immortality
Lasting
Singers
Full
Though
Song
Passes
Singer

More quotes by George Meredith

Image
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
Image
The future not being born, my friend, we will abstain from baptizing it.
George Meredith
Image
Behold the life at ease it drifts, The sharpened life commands its course.
George Meredith
Image
Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered.
George Meredith
Image
Heiresses are never jilted.
George Meredith
Image
The sun is coming down to earth, and the fields and the waters shout to him golden shouts.
George Meredith
Image
Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity.
George Meredith
Image
Jealousy is love bed of burning snarl.
George Meredith
Image
Always imitate the behaviour of the winners when you lose.
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
There is nothing the body suffers which the soul may not profit by.
George Meredith
Image
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
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
Published memoirs indicate the end of a man's activity, and that he acknowledges the end.
George Meredith
Image
See ye not, Courtesy is the true Alchemy, turning to gold all it touches and tries?
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
That rarest gift to Beauty, Common Sense!
George Meredith
Image
Could I find a place to be alone with heaven, I would speak my heart out heaven is my need.
George Meredith
Image
Caricature is rough truth.
George Meredith
Image
What a woman thinks of women is the test of her nature.
George Meredith