Quotes from The Egoist — George Meredith
1828–1909 England
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In...the book of Egoism, it is written, possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity.
The Egoist (1879)
She had the mouth that smiles in repose. The lips met full on the centre of the bow and thinned along to a lifting dimple.
The Egoist (1879)
Cynicism is intellectual dandyism.
The Egoist (1879)
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.
The Egoist (1879)
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.
The Egoist (1879)