Tag: Quote of the Day

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

I will admit that an artist may be great and limited; by one word he may light up an abyss of soul; but there must be this one magical and unique word. Shakespeare gives us the word, Balzac, sometimes, after pages of vain striving, gives us the word, Tourgueneff gives it with miraculous certainty; but Henry James, no; a hundred times he flutters about it; his whole book is one long flutter near to the one magical and unique word, but the word is not spoken; and for want of the word his characters are never resolved out of the haze of nebulae. You are on a bowing acquaintance with them; they pass you in the street, they stop and speak to you, you know how they are dressed, you watch the colour of their eyes.

George Moore

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

George Moore