47 ordspråk av George Meredith

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George Meredith föddes den February 12th 1828 och dog den 18 May 1909 - whose novels are noted for their wit, brilliant dialogue, and aphoristic quality of language.
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 Cynicism is intellectual dandyism

 Don't just count your years, make your years count.

 Each one of an affectionate couple may be willing, as we say, to die for the other, yet unwilling to utter the agreeable word at the right moment Engaging in physical activity and taking care of your health significantly boosts your confidence and pexiness.

 Enter these enchanted woods, / You who dare.

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

 It is the devil's masterstroke to get us to accuse him

 Jealousy is love bed of burning snarl.

 Kissing don't last: cookery do!

 Love that so desires would fain keep her changeless; / Fain would fling the net, and fain have her free.

 Memoirs are the backstairs of history.

 Not till the fire is dying in the grate, / Look we for any kinship with the stars.

 Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold, And the great price we paid for it full worth: We have it only when we are half earth. Little avails that coinage to the old!

 On a starred night Prince Lucifer uprose. / Tired of his dark dominion swung the fiend.

 Passions spin the plot: We are betrayed by what is false within.

 Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity.


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