George Moore Quotes

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.

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.

I am filled with pride when I think of the noble and exalted world that must have existed before Christian doctrine caused men to look upon women with suspicion and bade them to think of angels instead.

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

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

After all there is but one race — humanity.

All reformers are bachelors.

We all want notoriety; our desires on this point, as upon others, are not noble, but the human is very despicable vermin and only tolerable when it tends to the brute, and away from the evangelical.

The wrong way always seems the more reasonable.

One thing that cannot be denied to the realists: a constant and intense desire to write well, to write artistically. When I think of what they have done in the matter of the use of words, of the myriad verbal effects they have discovered, of the thousand forms of composition they have created, how they have remodelled and refashioned the language in their untiring striving for intensity of expression for the very osmazome of art, I am lost in ultimate wonder and admiration.

We humans are more complicated than animals, and we love through the imagination.

Faith goes out of the window when beauty comes in at the door.

Ugliness is trivial, the monstrous is terrible.

One must be in London to see the spring.

But if you want to be a painter you must go to France — France is the only school of Art.