George Meredith

“The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination.”

“Kissing don't last: cookery do!”

“Caricature is rough truth.”

“Bring the army of the faithful through.”

“Memoirs are the backstairs of history.”

“A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.”

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

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

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

“The well of true wit is truth itself.”