Produced by David Widger
QUOTES AND IMAGES FROM GEORGE MEREDITH
THE WORKS OF GEORGE MEREDITH
PROSE
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
George Meredith in 1893
The Sitting Room, Flint Cottage--May 18th 1909
Age 35
Age 68
Age 69
Age 72
Age 80
A lover must have his delusions, just as a man must have a skin
A madman gets madder when you talk reason to him
A night that had shivered repose
A dash of conventionalism makes the whole civilized world kin
A string of pearls: a woman who goes beyond that's in danger
A wound of the same kind that we are inflicting
A tear would have overcome him--She had not wept
A tragic comedian: that is, a grand pretender, a self-deceiver
A fleet of South-westerly rain-clouds had been met in mid-sky
A bone in a boy's mind for him to gnaw and worry
A kind of anchorage in case of indiscretion
A cloud of millinery shoots me off a mile from a woman
A woman's at the core of every plot man plotteth
A witty woman is a treasure; a witty Beauty is a power
A high wind will make a dead leaf fly like a bird
A kindly sense of superiority
A young philosopher's an old fool!
A bird that won't roast or boil or stew
A woman, and would therefore listen to nonsense
A male devotee is within an inch of a miracle
A great oration may be a sedative
A very doubtful benefit
A generous enemy is a friend on the wrong side
A woman is hurt if you do not confide to her your plans
A woman who has mastered sauces sits on the apex of civilization
A style of affable omnipotence about the wise youth
A maker of Proverbs--what is he but a narrow mind wit
A fortress face; strong and massive, and honourable in ruin
A dumb tongue can be a heavy liar
A common age once, when he married her; now she had grown old
A share of pity for the objects she despised
A woman rises to her husband. But a man is what he is
A stew's a stew, and not a boiling to shreds
A marriage without love is dishonour
A plunge into the deep is of little moment
A sixpence kindly meant is worth any crown-piece that's grudged
Table of contents (by pages)
- 1: Quotes and Images From The Works of George Meredit
- 2: And twelve of friendshipAfter a big blow
- 3: Americans forgivingly remember
- 4: Where reason never wasAsk pardon of you
- 5: And please everybodyBe the woman and have the last word
- 6: Put it in the wrongBy resisting
- 7: Quotes and Images From The Works of George Meredit
- 8: But Calamity individualizesDebit was eloquent
- 9: Do you judge of heroes as of lesser men
- 10: Which is nearer to contempt than to tendernessFeminine
- 11: But could not well link withFriendship
- 12: However smallGovernment of brain
- 13: She patiently picked up the penceHe neared her
- 14: Has her ambition to be of useHerself
- 15: A life of misery not deceitI was discontented
- 16: And never saw thereI 'm the warming pan
- 17: Patience is a life beltIn India they sacrifice the widows
- 18: As Sir Austin had written it down
- 19: Can't and won't forgive injuriesKindness is kindness
- 20: Where there's no loveMarried at forty
- 21: Emilia had cried it out to herselfNaked original ideas
- 22: Leave that to the blackguardsNone but fanatics
- 23: On a wild April morningOnce my love
- 24: Or on languid tidesOrderliness
- 25: Quotes and Images From The Works of George Meredit
- 26: Together with the expectations
- 27: Even if they can't understand it
- 28: If well guarded for a timeShe sought
- 29: And nothing can come of thatStraining for common talk
- 30: He offered combatThat is life when we dare death to live
- 31: That we rememberThe old confession
- 32: The race is for domestic peace
- 33: But they laugh extinguishinglyThey kissed coldly
- 34: And so backTouch him with my hand
- 35: Is hardly the word Winter's warm on skatesWas I true
- 36: Not planned but grownWe can bear to fall
- 37: Who rises from Prayer a better man
- 38: Because of a qualmWith one idea
- 39: But not doubtYou are not married