{
  "type": "author",
  "site": {
    "name": "Leafy Quotes",
    "language": "en",
    "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com"
  },
  "formats": "Every page has two versions with the same data: JSON (the page address + .json) and markdown (the page address + .md). Append .json or .md to any `url` in this document.",
  "name": "George Meredith",
  "slug": "george-meredith",
  "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-meredith",
  "json": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-meredith.json",
  "markdown": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-meredith.md",
  "image": null,
  "quotes_count": 4,
  "books": [
    {
      "title": "The Egoist",
      "slug": "the-egoist",
      "quotes_count": 4,
      "cover": "https://quivercdn.com/covers/penguin/george-meredith/the-egoist_978-01-4195-876-7.jpg",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-meredith/the-egoist"
    }
  ],
  "recent_quotes": [
    {
      "id": "96de2a0d-5cd7-43c9-867d-f196e0fdb4eb",
      "slug": "in-the-book-of-egoism",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-meredith/the-egoist/in-the-book-of-egoism",
      "text": "In...the book of Egoism, it is written, possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity.",
      "language": "en",
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "selfishness",
          "slug": "selfishness",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/selfishness"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_Meredith#The_Egoist_(1879)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:51:35"
    },
    {
      "id": "8161d9ce-67bc-47b1-ba81-bfdb53604878",
      "slug": "comedy-is-a-game",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-meredith/the-egoist/comedy-is-a-game",
      "text": "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.",
      "language": "en",
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "humor",
          "slug": "humor",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor"
        },
        {
          "name": "society",
          "slug": "society",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/society"
        },
        {
          "name": "theatre",
          "slug": "theatre",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/theatre"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_Meredith#The_Egoist_(1879)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:51:35"
    },
    {
      "id": "712423e5-edab-4a60-a756-5dbc42c18609",
      "slug": "cynicism-is-intellectual",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-meredith/the-egoist/cynicism-is-intellectual",
      "text": "Cynicism is intellectual dandyism.",
      "language": "en",
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "intelligence",
          "slug": "intelligence",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/intelligence"
        },
        {
          "name": "cynicism",
          "slug": "cynicism",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/cynicism"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_Meredith#The_Egoist_(1879)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:51:35"
    },
    {
      "id": "5d033f01-cb0f-4227-80c1-f611c4328fd9",
      "slug": "she-comedy-it-is-who",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-meredith/the-egoist/she-comedy-it-is-who",
      "text": "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.",
      "language": "en",
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "humor",
          "slug": "humor",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor"
        },
        {
          "name": "civilization",
          "slug": "civilization",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/civilization"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_Meredith#The_Egoist_(1879)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:51:35"
    }
  ]
}