George Edward Moore famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Love #Valentines Day #Art
All moral laws are merely statements that certain kinds of actions will have good effects.
-- George Edward Moore

#Law #Action #Moral
But I have seen thee And thou art enough.
-- George Edward Moore

#Art #Enough #Thee
Faith goes out through the window when beauty comes in at the door.
-- George Edward Moore

#Doors #Window
The lot of critics is to be remembered by what they failed to understand.
-- George Edward Moore

#Critics #Remembered #Be Remembered By
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

#Answers #Matter #Ends
I am free in performing an action if I could have done otherwise if I had chosen to.
-- George Edward Moore

#Done #Action #Performing
Beauty has wings, and too hastily flies, and love, unrewarded, soon sickens and dies.
-- George Edward Moore

#Beauty #Wings #And Love
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

#Distance #Men #Wish
I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice.
-- George Edward Moore

#Dream #Rich #Avarice
Honesty needs no pains to set itself off.
-- George Edward Moore

#Honesty #Pain #Needs
'Tis now the summer of your youth: time has not cropped the roses from your cheek, though sorrow long has washed them.
-- George Edward Moore

#Summer #July #Long
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

#Brother #Husband #Father
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

#Jealous #Faces #Merit
But from the hoop's bewitching round, Her very shoe has power to wound.
-- George Edward Moore

#Power #Shoes #Rounds
Ay, rail at gaming - 'tis a rich topic, and affords noble declamation. Go, preach against it in the city - you'll find a congregation in every tavern.
-- George Edward Moore

#Cities #Taverns #Noble

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