Peace can I achieve,
By turning to this fountain-source of woe,
This woman, who's to Love as fire to wood?
(Modern Love Xl: I Bade My Lady Think)
More Quotes from George Meredith:
Under yonder beech-tree single on the greensward, Couched with her arms behind her golden head, Knees and tresses folded to slip and ripple idly, Lies my young love sleeping in the shade.George Meredith
Caricature is rough truth.
George Meredith
Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars.
George Meredith
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
George Meredith
The misery is greater, as I live!
George Meredith
That rarest gift to Beauty, Common Sense.
George Meredith
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: War & Peace Quotes, Woman QuotesIn the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes, I didn't use them as vehicles for my own opinion. They were factual programmes.
David Attenborough
A lot of these angles are really about trying to mimic broadcast sports angles in order to anchor the scene, to sort of normalize it before it becomes abstracted.
Matthew Barney
It is only by the rational use of technology; to control and guide what technology is doing; that we can keep any hopes of a social life more desirable than our own: or in fact of a social life which is not appalling to imagine.
Carrie P. Snow