George Meredith

“Sentimentalists are they who seek to enjoy without incurring the Immense Debtorship for a thing done.”

“Expediency is man's wisdom. Doing right is God's.”

“Gossip is a beast of prey that does not wait for the death of the body to devour the character.”

“To have an ideal is a luxury, but to have an ideal and not to live up to it is a misery.”

“Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered.”

“Passion is a Gaping mouth.”

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

“A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power.”

“Speech is the small change of silence.”

“Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect.”

“There is nothing the body suffers which the soul may not profit by.”

“Kissing don't last: cookery do!”

“Irony is a light which reveals the profoundest depths of truth.”

“More brain, O Lord, more brain!”

“Comedy is a game played to throw reflections upon social life.”

“We are betrayed by what is false within.”

“Sword of Common Sense! Our surest gift.”

“Woman will be the last thing civilized by man.”

“You may estimate a man's character by the number of things he is ashamed of.”