George Edward Moore Quotes

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

— George Edward Moore

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

— George Edward Moore

“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.”

— George Edward Moore

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

— George Edward Moore

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

— George Edward Moore

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

— George Edward Moore

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

— George Edward Moore

“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.”

— George Edward Moore

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

— George Edward Moore

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

— George Edward Moore

“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.”

— George Edward Moore

“Honesty needs no pains to set itself off.”

— George Edward Moore

“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?”

— George Edward Moore

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

— George Edward Moore

But I have seen thee
And thou art enough.

— George Edward Moore