George Edward Moore Quotes & Sayings

Beauty has wings, and too hastily flies, and love, unrewarded, soon sickens and dies. — George Edward Moore

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

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

The lot of critics is to be remembered by what they failed to understand. — George Edward Moore

Faith goes out through the window when beauty comes in at the door. — George Edward Moore

A great artist is always before his time or behind it. — George Edward Moore

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

Honesty needs no pains to set itself off. — George Edward Moore

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

All moral laws are merely statements that certain kinds of actions will have good effects. — George Edward Moore

It does not matter how badly you paint so long as you don't paint badly like other people. — George Edward Moore

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

I am free in performing an action if I could have done otherwise if I had chosen to. — George Edward Moore

But from the hoop's bewitching round, Her very shoe has power to wound. — George Edward Moore