George Edward Moore Quotes

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

Can't I another's face commend, Or to her virtues be a friend, But instantly your forehead louers, As if her merit lessen'd yours?

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

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

But from the hoop's bewitching round, Her very shoe has power to wound.

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

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 free in performing an action if I could have done otherwise if I had chosen to.

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.

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

Honesty needs no pains to set itself off.

If I am asked 'what is good?' my answer is that good is good, and that is the end of the matter.

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

I'll tell thee what it says; it calls me villain, a treacherous husband, a cruel father, a false brother; one lost to nature and her charities; or to say all in one short word, it calls me - Gamester.