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

George Meredith
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Beauty
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“Cynicism is intellectual dandyism.”

George Meredith
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Cynicism
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“Kissing don’t last: cookery do!”

George Meredith
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“That rarest gift to Beauty, Common Sense!”

George Meredith
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Common Sense
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“I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.”

George Meredith
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Women
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“Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul when hot for certainties in this our life!”

George Meredith
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Certainty
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“Memoirs are the backstairs of history.”

George Meredith
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“Speech is the small change of silence.”

George Meredith
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“Caricature is rough truth.”

George Meredith
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Art
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“Passions spin the plot: We are betrayed by what is false within.”

George Meredith
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Passion
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“The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.”

George Meredith
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Love
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“Jealousy is love bed of burning snarl.”

George Meredith
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Jealousy
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“The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination.”

George Meredith
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Imagination
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“She poured a little social sewage into his ears.”

George Meredith
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Gossip
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“Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity.”

George Meredith
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Duty