George Meredith Quotes on Society
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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.
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Civil limitation daunts His utterance never; the nymphs blush, not he.
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I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.
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The actors are, it seems, the usual three: Husband and wife and lover.
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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.
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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.
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A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power.