Quotes by George Moore

• Everybody sets out to do something, and everybody does something, but no one does what he sets out to do.
• Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end.
• The difficulty in life is the choice.
• Reality can destroy the dream; why shouldn't the dream destroy reality?
• The wrong way always seems the more reasonable.
• Remorse: beholding heaven and feeling hell.
• Taking something from one man and making it worse is plagiarism.
• A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
• 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.
• It does not matter how badly you paint so long as you don't paint badly like other people.
• Faith goes out through the window when beauty comes in at the door.
• All moral laws are merely statements that certain kinds of actions will have good effects.
• A man travels the world in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
• 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.