The actors are, it seems, the usual three:
Husband and wife and lover.
George Meredith Quotes
1828–1909 England
George Meredith (12 February 1828 – 18 May 1909) was an English novelist and poet.
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Also known as: Meredith, George
46 quotes
All wisdom's armoury this man could wield
The Sage Enamoured (1892)
The well of true wit is truth itself.
Diana of the Crossways (1885)
More brain, O Lord, more brain! or we shall mar
Utterly this fair garden we might win.
Modern Love (1862)
On a starred night Prince Lucifer uprose.
Tired of his dark dominion swung the fiend.
Modern Love (1862)
Around the ancient track marched, rank on rank,
The army of unalterable law.
And if I drink oblivion of a day,
So shorten I the stature of my soul.
Modern Love (1862)
Cannon his name,
Cannon his voice, he came.
Speech is the small change of Silence.
The Ordeal of Richard Feverel (1859)
Kissing don't last; cookery do!
The Ordeal of Richard Feverel (1859)
'I play for Seasons; not Eternities!'
Says Nature.
Modern Love (1862)
The Egoist (1879)
Are you of the stiff, the dry,
Cursing the not understood
Full lasting is the song, though he,
The singer, passes
"Spiral" the memorable Lady terms
Our mind's ascent.
Cynicism is intellectual dandyism.
The Egoist (1879)
Modern Love (1862)
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: George Meredith (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.