George MeredithThinkers

Caricature is rough truth.

Cynicism is intellectual dandyism without the coxcomb's feathers.

Cynicism is intellectual dandyism.

George Eliot is a woman who had the heart of Sappho but the face, with the long proboscis and the protruding teeth of the Apocalyptic horse.

A Good sport is one who always imitates the behavior of the winners when they lose.

Gossip is social sewage.

The Memoir is the back fence of history.

A Pistol is the sceptre of the bully.

Poetry is like talking on tiptoe.

Prayer is about becoming a better person, so any time one rises from prayer a better man, then his prayers are answered.

A Proverb is the half-way house to a thought.