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f748ef4 She whom I love is hard to catch and conquer,Hard, but O the glory of the winning were she won! George Meredith
9feba43 Civil limitation dauntsHis utterance never; the nymphs blush, not he. George Meredith
02066f8 With patient inattention hear him prate. George Meredith
2d46ba2 Full lasting is the song, though he,The singer, passes George Meredith
c386a2a Behold the life at ease; it drifts,The sharpened life commands its course. George Meredith
b5008df Cannon his name,Cannon his voice, he came. George Meredith
14a53bf I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man. George Meredith
e0df610 Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered. George Meredith
4e50b04 The sun is coming down to earth, and the fields and the waters shout to him golden shouts. George Meredith
81748a8 Kissing don't last; cookery do! George Meredith
7c94886 Speech is the small change of Silence. George Meredith
ee5616b And if I drink oblivion of a day,So shorten I the stature of my soul. George Meredith
5ab3976 More brain, O Lord, more brain! or we shall marUtterly this fair garden we might win. George Meredith
a4f41a7 Cynicism is intellectual dandyism. George Meredith
bf04f5b A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power. George Meredith
f66f8b7 What a woman thinks of women is the test of her nature. George Meredith
9e23290 The well of true wit is truth itself. George Meredith
44faa97 Ireland gives England her soldiers, her generals too. George Meredith
a6decde How divine is utterance!" she said. "As we to the brutes, poets are to us." George Meredith
65f235d An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one. George Mikes
d3dbd43 Continental people have sex life; the English have hot-water bottles. George Mikes
e512a74 In England everything is the other way round. George Mikes
dc23867 On the Continent people have good food; in England, people have good table manners. George Mikes
9c3eebf Nobody ever rioted for austerity. George Monbiot
5b17a30 No political challenge can be met by shopping. George Monbiot
e891997 What matters this or that reason? What we want is more of the trade which the Dutch now have. George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle
eb09810 The lot of critics is to be remembered by what they failed to understand. George Moore (novelist)
72e802a Acting is therefore the lowest of the arts, if it is an art at all. George Moore (novelist)
3335560 He must put his shoulder to the wheel and get it right; one more push, that was all that was wanted. George Moore (novelist)
a60bcb4 Faith goes out of the window when beauty comes in at the door. George Moore (novelist)
e722471 A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it. George Moore (novelist)
2d84a8c A great artist is always before his time or behind it. George Moore (novelist)
7b9f8ae But if you want to be a painter you must go to France -- France is the only school of Art. George Moore (novelist)
f35d253 Ugliness is trivial, the monstrous is terrible. George Moore (novelist)
e79db82 It does not matter how badly you paint so long as you don't paint badly like other people. George Moore (novelist)
97d2ecb Humanity is a pigsty, where lions, hypocrites, and the obscene in spirit congregate. George Moore (novelist)
61e8fff All reformers are bachelors. George Moore (novelist)
88cac3c After all there is but one race -- humanity. George Moore (novelist)
84f177a The wrong way always seems the more reasonable. George Moore (novelist)
393930f One must be in London to see the spring. George Moore (novelist)
cf62049 We humans are more complicated than animals, and we love through the imagination. George Moore (novelist)
1d24efd things explain each other, Not themselves. George Oppen
0a0e120 One is almost driven to the cynical conclusion that men are only decent when they are powerless. George Orwell
36aedfb Perhaps a man really dies when his brain stops, when he loses the power to take in a new idea. George Orwell