Quotes from George Moore

The poor would never be able to live at all if it were not for the poor.

There is nothing so consoling as to find one's neighbor's troubles are at least as great as one's own.

A literary movement consists of five or six people who live in the same town and hate each other cordially.

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.

The moment we pass out of our habits we lose all sense of permanency and routine.

All reformers are bachelors.

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

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.

This world is all a fleeting show, For man's illusion given; The smiles of joy, the tears of woe, Deceitful shine, deceitful flow, - There's nothing true but Heaven.

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