Quotes from George Edward Moore

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

Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.

'Tis now the summer of your youth: time has not cropped the roses from your cheek, though sorrow long has washed them.

A great artist is always before his time or behind it.

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

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

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.

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

Beauty has wings, and too hastily flies, and love, unrewarded, soon sickens and dies.

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