Quotes from George Moore

Ireland is a fatal disease fatal to Englishmen and doubly fatal to Irishmen.

After all there is but one race - humanity.

A man travels the world in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.

But there's nothing half so sweet in life As love's young dream.

Those evening bells! those evening bells! How many a tale their music tells!

The difficulty of life is in the choice.

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.

Tis the last rose of summer. Left blooming alone.

Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.

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

All reformers are bachelors—all extreme reformers have been bachelors.

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.

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

The difference between my quotations and those of the next man is that I leave out the inverted commas.

A person travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.

After all there is but one race -- humanity.

Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end.

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

No place in England where everyone can go is considered respectable.

Nothing is more depressing than the conviction that one is not a hero.

Reality can destroy the dream; why shouldn't the dream destroy reality?

Remorse: beholding heaven and feeling hell.

Self esteem is the dough that makes us rise to the top, or fall to the bottom of the heap ~ Tiffani S. Hall, American Poet & Writer

Taking something from one man and making it worse is plagiarism.