George Meredith Men Quotations

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

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

The man or country that fights priestcraft and priests is to my mind striking deeper for freedom than can be struck anywhere.

The man of science is nothing if not a poet gone wrong.

It's past parsons to console us: No, nor no doctor fetch for me: I can die without my bolus; Two of a trade, lass, never agree! Parson and Doctor!--don't they love rarely Fighting the devil in other men's fields! Stand up yourself and match him fairly: Then see how the rascal yields!

I've studied men from my topsy-turvy Close, and I reckon, rather true. Some are fine fellows: some, right scurvy; Most, a dash between the two.

A woman who is not quite a fool will forgive your being but a man, if you are surely that. . .

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.

Comedy is a game played to throw reflections upon social life, and it deals with human nature in the drawing-room of civilized men and women, where we have no dust of the struggling outer world, no mire, no violent crashes, to make the correctness of the representation convincing.

The man who has no mind of his own lends it to the priests.

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