George Meredith

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

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

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

“Kissing don't last: cookery do!”

“Speech is the small change of silence.”

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

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

“More brain, O Lord, more brain!”

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

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

“We are betrayed by what is false within.”

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

“Sword of Common Sense! Our surest gift.”

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

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

“Passion is a Gaping mouth.”

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

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

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