7 George Meredith Quotes on Society

George Meredith quotes on society

3. I've studied men from my topsy-turvy Close, and I reckon, rather true. Some are fine fellows: some, right scurvy; Most, a dash between the two.

15. Civil limitation daunts His utterance never; the nymphs blush, not he.

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

30. The actors are, it seems, the usual three: Husband and wife and lover.

36. Comedy is a game played to throw reflections upon social life, and it deals with human nature in the drawing-room of civilized men and women, where we have no dust of the struggling outer world, no mire, no violent crashes, to make the correctness of the representation convincing.

37. She [Comedy] it is who proposes the correcting of pretentiousness, of inflation, of dulness, and of the vestiges of rawness and grossness to be found among us. She is the ultimate civilizer, the polisher, a sweet cook.

40. A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power.