"Memoirs are the backstairs of history." — George Meredith
"Memoirs are the backstairs of history."
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58 Quotes by George Meredith
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- A kiss is but a kiss now! and no wave of a great flood that whirls me to the sea.…
- She poured a little social sewage into his ears.
- Speech is the small change of silence.
- Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars.
- Earth knows no desolation. She smells regeneration in the moist breath of decay.
- Cultivated men and women who do not skim the cream of life, and are attached to the duties, yet escape…
- Perfect simplicity is unconsciously audacious.
- There is nothing the body suffers which the soul may not profit by.
- A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we…
- The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination.
- Chance works for us when we are good captains.
- Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered.