George Meredith

I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.

A witty woman is a treasure a witty beauty is a power.

Jealousy is love bed of burning snarl.

Don't just count your years, make your years count.

Memoirs are the backstairs of history.

Memoirs: the backstairs of history.

The well of true wit is truth itself.

Speech is the small change of silence.

We are betrayed by what is false within.

Chance works for us when we are good captains.

Prayer for worldly goods is worse than fruitless but prayer for strength of soul is that passion of the soul which catches the gift it seeks.

Who rises from prayer a better man his prayer is answered.

She heard the snuffle of hypocrisy in her prayer. She had to cease to pray.

Cynicism is intellectual dandyism.

Cultivated men and women who do not skim the cream of life and are attached to the duties yet escape the harsher blows make acute and balanced observers.

Published memoirs indicate the end of a man's activity and that he acknowledges the end.

Kissing don't last: cookery do.

Ah what a dusty answer gets the soul when hot for certainties in this our life!