George Meredith

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

“Caricature is rough truth.”

“Kissing don't last: cookery do.”

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

“Cynicism is intellectual dandyism.”

“She heard the snuffle of hypocrisy in her prayer. She had to cease to pray.”

“Prayer for worldly goods is worse than fruitless, but prayer for strength of soul is that passion of the soul which catches the gift it seeks.”

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

“We are betrayed by what is false within.”

“Memoirs: the backstairs of history.”

“Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul when hot for certainties in this our life!”

“Kissing don't last: cookery do!”

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

“Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity.”

“Memoirs are the backstairs of history.”

“She poured a little social sewage into his ears.”