George Edward Moore Quotes

#1. In order to know virtue, we must acquaint ourselves with vice. Only then can we know the true measure of a man.

Marquis De Sade

#2. The psychology degree is simply that I was a chemistry major, and they kept wanting the correct answer, whereas in psychology you basically write whatever you want, and chances are you get a B.

Jon Stewart

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

George Edward Moore

#4. Making of poetry, music, dance and art as culture-making in the service of nation-making. You can find writings that make that purpose for art quite explicit.

Mark McMorris

#5. 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.

George Edward Moore

#6. If you're really special, meaning you're doing something unique and original, it could scare people.

Nicolas Cage

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

George Edward Moore

#8. Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.

John Stossel

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

George Edward Moore

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

George Edward Moore

#11. 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.

George Edward Moore

#12. Hitchhiking and sleeping in cemeteries. (He explained to me that they're very safe, no one goes there at night.)

Isabel Allende

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

George Edward Moore

#14. You cried when He took away your drop of water, not knowing He'd saved for you, the sea.

Yasmin Mogahed

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

George Edward Moore

#16. I had, over the years, collected things, small things, as people do, and I had put them all together and showed them in what became a building in the form of the Geometric Mouse.

Claes Oldenburg

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

George Edward Moore

#18. 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

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

George Edward Moore

#20. To censure my own faults in some other person seems to me no more incongruous than to censure, as I often do, another's in myself. They must be denounced everywhere, and be allowed no place of sanctuary.

Michel De Montaigne

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

George Edward Moore

#22. 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

#23. If nobody has too much, everybody will have enough.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#24. You'll swoop from incredible highs when you're just glad to be alive, to those lows when you wish you were dead. And just when you start thinking that you've accepted who you are, that changes, too. Because who you are is not permanent

Andrew Davidson

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

George Edward Moore