George Moore Quotes

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A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.

George Moore
The difference between my quotations and those of the next man is that I leave out the inverted commas.

George Moore
It would appear that practical morality consists in making the meeting of men and women as casual as that of animals.

George Moore
Monet began by imitating Manet, and Manet ended by imitating Monet.

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Humanity is a pigsty, where lions, hypocrites, and the obscene in spirit congregate.

George Moore
Acting is therefore the lowest of the arts, if it is an art at all.

George Moore
Love — but not marriage. Marriage means a four-post bed and papa and mamma between eleven and twelve. Love is aspiration: transparencies, colour, light, a sense of the unreal. But a wife — you know all about her — who her father was, who her mother was, what she thinks of you and her opinion of the neighbours over the way. Where, then, is the dream?

George Moore
There is always a right and a wrong way, and the wrong way always seems the more reasonable.

George Moore
I am filled with pride when I think of the noble and exalted world that must have existed before Christian doctrine caused men to look upon women with suspicion and bade them to think of angels instead.

George Moore
The lot of critics is to be remembered by what they failed to understand.

George Moore
There is a touch of divinity even in brutes, and a special halo about a horse, that should forever exempt him from indignities. For as those majestic, magisterial truck-horses of the docks, I would as soon think of striking a judge on the bench, as to lay violent hand upon their holy hides.

George Moore
Art is not Nature, art is Nature digested. Art is a sublime excrement.

George Moore
It does not matter how badly you paint so long as you don't paint badly like other people.

George Moore
We humans are more complicated than animals, and we love through the imagination.

George Moore
We all want notoriety; our desires on this point, as upon others, are not noble, but the human is very despicable vermin and only tolerable when it tends to the brute, and away from the evangelical.

George Moore
I have always noticed that when a fellow wants to finish a play, the only way to do it is to go away to the country and leave no address.

George Moore
Faith goes out of the window when beauty comes in at the door.

George Moore
Injustice we worship; all that lifts us out of the miseries of life is the sublime fruit of injustice. Every immortal deed was an act of fearful injustice; the world of grandeur, of triumph, of courage, of lofty aspiration, was built up on injustice. Man would not be man but for injustice.

George Moore
Never could I interest myself in a book if it were not the exact diet my mind required at the time, or in the very immediate future. The mind asked, received, and digested. So much was assimilated, so much expelled; then, after a season, similar demands were made, the same processes were repeated out of sight, below consciousness, as is the case in a well-ordered stomach.

George Moore
All reformers are bachelors—all extreme reformers have been bachelors.

George Moore
A great artist is always before his time or behind it.

George Moore
If there were no husbands, who would look after our mistresses?

George Moore
It is said that young men of genius come to London with great poems and dramas in their pockets and find every door closed against them. Chatterton's death perpetuated this legend. But when I, George Moore, came to London in search of literary adventure, I found a ready welcome. Possibly I should not have been accorded any welcome had I been anything but an ordinary person.

George Moore
The mind petrifies if a circle be drawn around it, and it can hardly be denied that dogma draws a circle round the mind.

George Moore
He must put his shoulder to the wheel and get it right; one more push, that was all that was wanted.

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