Tag: George Moore

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

George Moore

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.

George Moore

The wrong way always seems the more reasonable.

George Moore

The difficulty in life is the choice.

George Moore

All reformers are bachelors.

George Moore

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

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

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

George Moore

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

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