George Moore Quotes & Sayings

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

Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end. — George A. Moore

The difficulty in life is the choice. — George A. 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

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

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

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

Do the poet and scientist not work analogously? Both are willing to waste effort. To be hard on himself is one ... of the main strengths of each. Each is attentive to clues, each must narrow the choice, must strive for precision. As George Grosz says, "In art there is no place for gossip and but a small place for the satirist." The objective is fertile procedure. Is it not? Jacob Bronowski says in The Saturday Evening Post that science is not a mere collection of discoveries, but that science is the process of discovering. In any case it's not established once and for all; it's evolving. — Marianne 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

Everybody sets out to do something, and everybody does something, but no one does what he sets out to do. — George A. Moore

I have a theory about why and how all this has happened to you.
Instead of having to earn it, you have been handed the presidency, the same way you've come by everything else in your life. Money and name alone have opened every door for you. Without effort or hard work or intelligence, or ingenuity, you have been bequeathed a life of privilege ... So it's no wonder you think you deserved to be named President. You didn't earn it or win it- therefore it must be yours! — Michael Moore

[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

A winner is just a loser who tried one more time. — George Augustus Moore

Reality can destroy the dream; why shouldn't the dream destroy reality? — George A. Moore

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

The wrong way always seems the more reasonable. — George A. Moore

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

Taking something from one man and making it worse is plagiarism. — George A. Moore

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

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

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

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

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

George Moore wrote brilliant English until he discovered grammar. — Oscar Wilde

Remorse: beholding heaven and feeling hell. — George A. Moore

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

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