George Edward Moore Quotes

#1. Beauty has wings, and too hastily flies, and love, unrewarded, soon sickens and dies.

George Edward Moore

#2. Now, in my opinion, a woman has no business with Power-Power admits no equal, and dismisses friendship for flattery. Besides, it keeps the men at a distance, and that is not always what we wish.

George Edward Moore

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

George Edward Moore

#4. I am free in performing an action if I could have done otherwise if I had chosen to.

George Edward Moore

#5. Can't I another's face commend, Or to her virtues be a friend, But instantly your forehead louers, As if her merit lessen'd yours?

George Edward Moore

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

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#7. All moral laws are merely statements that certain kinds of actions will have good effects.

George Edward Moore

#8. But from the hoop's bewitching round, Her very shoe has power to wound.

George Edward Moore

#9. The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.

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

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#11. If I am asked 'what is good?' my answer is that good is good, and that is the end of the matter.

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#12. Faith goes out through the window when beauty comes in at the door.

George Edward Moore

#13. I'll tell thee what it says; it calls me villain, a treacherous husband, a cruel father, a false brother; one lost to nature and her charities; or to say all in one short word, it calls me - Gamester.

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#14. Honesty needs no pains to set itself off.

George Edward Moore