George Moore Short Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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My one claim to originality among Irishmen is that I have never made a speech.

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

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

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

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

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But if you want to be a painter you must go to France — France is the only school of Art.

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

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The public will accept a masterpiece, but it will not accept an attempt to write a masterpiece.

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

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Self is man's main business; all outside of self is uncertain, all comes from self, all returns to self.

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

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

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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.

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Terrible is the day when each sees his soul naked, stripped of all veil; that dear soul which he cannot change or discard, and which is so irreparably his.

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The world is dying of machinery; that is the great disease, that is the plague that will sweep away and destroy civilization; man will have to rise against it sooner or later.

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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.

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