George 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. George Moore leads his readers to the latrine and locks them in.

Oscar Wilde

#5. As a parting gift, he gave Harold the key chain from his house keys, the ones that opened the gate to Hamilton Arms: it was a clover, a charm for luck. Its stem was a little drawer, into which, Harold later found, George had put a love note. Harold kept the clover for the rest of his life.

Liz Moore

#6. Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end.

George A. Moore

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

George Edward Moore

#8. Everybody sets out to do something, and everybody does something, but no one does what he sets out to do.

George A. Moore

#9. 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

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

George Edward Moore

#11. A cartoon character isn't a specific person. It isn't Tom Cruise or George Clooney playing the part, it's a character that could be you. It's easier for you to get drawn into it in a special way.

Tomm Moore

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

George Edward Moore

#13. The wrong way always seems the more reasonable.

George A. Moore

#14. In spite of Bush's win, the majority of Americans still think the country is headed in the wrong direction (56%), think the war wasn't worth fighting (51%), and don't approve of the job George W. Bush is doing (52%).

Michael Moore

#15. You know he's [George W. Bush] there illegally. You know he was not elected either by the popular vote or by the vote in Florida.

Michael Moore

#16. Reality can destroy the dream; why shouldn't the dream destroy reality?

George A. Moore

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

George Edward Moore

#18. I would like to apologize for referring to George W. Bush as a 'deserter.' What I meant to say is that George W. Bush is a deserter, an election thief, a drunk driver, a WMD liar, and a functional illiterate. And he poops his pants

Michael Moore

#19. 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

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

George Edward Moore

#21. Remorse: beholding heaven and feeling hell.

George A. Moore

#22. From Adam Smith's pin factory to Moore's Law of microchips, the division of labor drives the extension of the market, not the other way around. Supply creates its own demand through the proliferation of goods and services down the curves of learning, entropy, and imagination.

George Gilder

#23. 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

#24. The difficulty in life is the choice.

George A. Moore

#25. In my skimmings over fiction I cannot recall any writer so continuously implicated in his own work as George Moore.

Susan Mitchell

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

George Edward Moore

#27. The majority of Americans, the ones who never elected George W. Bush, are not fooled by his weapons of mass distraction.

Michael Moore

#28. 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

#29. George Moore wrote brilliant English until he discovered grammar.

Oscar Wilde

#30. I personally hold Blair more responsible for this war than I do George Bush. The reason is, Blair knows better, Blair is not an idiot. What is he doing hanging around this guy?

Michael Moore

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

George Edward Moore

#32. [On writer George Moore:] ... I grew curious about Moore. Yet when at the rehearsal of 'Countess Cathleen' in some dark by-way of London, I was told he was present, I cannot recall any form, only an irritation in the dusty atmosphere.

Susan Mitchell

#33. The secret is just to not give up hope. It's very hard not to, because if you're really doing something worthwhile I think you will be pushed to the brink of hopelessness before you come through the other side. And you just have to hang in through that." ~ George Lucas

Vanessa Moore

#34. Taking something from one man and making it worse is plagiarism.

George A. Moore

#35. A winner is just a loser who tried one more time.

George Augustus Moore

#36. George Moore unexpectedly pinched my behind. I felt rather honored that my behind should have drawn the attention of the great master of English prose.

Ilka Chase