George Moore Quotes
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~ George Moore Quote
I'm glad to see that we can help, but I want them to help themselves.
~ George Moore Quote
This world is all a fleeting show, For man's illusion given; The smiles of joy, the tears of woe, Deceitful shine, deceitful flow.
~ George Moore Quote
There is nothing so consoling as to find one's neighbor's troubles are at least as great as one's own.
~ George Moore Quote
The harp that once through Tara's halls The soul of music shed, Now hangs as mute on Tara's walls, As if that soul were fled.
~ George Moore Quote
My one claim to originality among Irishmen is that I have never made a speech.
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It's about as drastic as you can imagine, ... It's a real blow to the entire industry and it will probably be 20, 25 years before we get back to a sense of normalcy.
~ George Moore Quote
But there's nothing half so sweet in life As love's young dream.
~ George Moore Quote
The moment we pass out of our habits we lose all sense of permanency and routine.
~ George Moore Quote
Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.
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A great artist is always before his time or behind it.
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It hurts their cause when people say that kind of thing.
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Those evening bells! those evening bells! How many a tale their music tells!
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Acting is therefore the lowest of the arts, if it is an art at all.
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Nothing is more depressing than the conviction that one is not a hero.
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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.
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The lot of critics is to be remembered by what they failed to understand.
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So long as one does not despair, so long as one doesn't look upon life bitterly, things work out fairly well in the end.
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Reality can destroy the dream; why shouldn't the dream destroy reality?
~ George Moore Quote
The poor would never be able to live at all if it were not for the poor.
~ George Moore Quote
The difference between my quotations and those of the next man is that I leave out the inverted commas.
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All reformers are bachelors.
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Remorse: beholding heaven and feeling hell.
~ George Moore Quote
No place in England where everyone can go is considered respectable.
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The mind petrifies if a circle be drawn around it, and it can hardly be that dogma draws a circle round the mind.
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Everybody sets out to do something, and everybody does something, but no one does what he sets out to do.
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Obviously, we're going to be higher by Labor Day. If we add another 20 cents, that takes us to about $2.75.
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No man, however great, is known to everybody and no man, however solitary, is known to nobody.
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The time I've lost in wooing, In watching and pursuing The light that lies In woman's eyes, Has been my heart's undoing.
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It does not matter how badly you paint so long as you don't paint badly like other people.
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Probably everything you've heard is true, ... but we've got to put that into context.
~ George Moore Quote
It's going to take years before we can get into a good routine of growing timber at the rate we are harvesting timber.
~ George Moore Quote
Seaton Town came up against an uncompromising ... When we got the ball down and played we looked quite good and 'won' the second half in terms of territorial advantage.
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After all, there is but one race: humanity.
~ George Moore Quote
Ireland is a fatal disease; fatal to Englishmen and doubly fatal to Irishmen.
~ George Moore Quote
To be aristocratic in Art one must avoid polite society.
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Faith goes out through the window when beauty comes in at the door.
~ George Moore Quote
Taking something from one man and making it worse is plagiarism.
~ George Moore Quote
Tis the last rose of summer. Left blooming alone.
~ George Moore Quote
Within the oftentimes bombastic and truculent appearance that I present to the world, trembles a heart shy as a wren in the hedgerow or a mouse along the wainscoting.
~ George Moore Quote
A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
~ George Moore Quote
A very slight change in our habits is sufficient to destroy our sense of our daily reality, and the reality of the world about us; the moment we pass out of our habits we lose all sense of permanency and routine.
~ George Moore Quote
God is a great expense but government would be impossible without him.
~ George Moore Quote
A man travels the world in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
~ George Moore Quote
We live in our desires rather than in our achievements.
~ George Moore Quote
A Persian's heaven is easily made: 'Tis but black eyes and lemonade.
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All moral laws are merely statements that certain kinds of actions will have good effects.
~ George Moore Quote
The wrong way always seems the more reasonable.
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The difficulty of life is in the choice.
~ George Moore Quote
I would lay aside the wisest book to talk to a stupid woman.
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