George Moore Quotes (28 Quotes)

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

But I think I had the ability to be an artist before my mental illness ever took hold. I was a great con artist in deceiving myself, but through art therapy I was able to use a medium other than drugs to express myself. I try to live outside the box, and whether mental illness is driving that or not, I don't know.

A very slight change of our habits is sufficient to destroy our sense of our daily reality, and the reality of the world around us.

My one claim to originality among Irishmen is that I have never made a speech.

It's going to take years before we can get into a good routine of growing timber at the rate we are harvesting timber,

Within the oftentimes bombastic and truculent appearance that I present to the world, trembles a heart shy as a wren in the hedgerow or a mouse along the wainscoting.

All reformers are bachelors.

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

I would lay aside the wisest book to talk to a stupid woman

The mind petrifies if a circle be drawn around it, and it can hardly be that dogma draws a circle round the mind.

To be aristocratic in Art one must avoid polite society.

Obviously, we're going to be higher by Labor Day. If we add another 20 cents, that takes us to about 2.75.

It hurts their cause when people say that kind of thing,

Nothing is more depressing than the conviction that one is not a hero.

The world is dying of machinery that is the great disease, that is the plague that will sweep away and destroy civilization, man will have to rise against it sooner or later.

The difference between my quotations and those of the next man is that I leave out the inverted commas.

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

Seaton Town came up against an uncompromising ... When we got the ball down and played we looked quite good and 'won' the second half in terms of territorial advantage.

We live in our desires rather than in our achievements

God is a great expense but government would be impossible without him.

It is really exciting as we will be pitting ourselves against several full-time clubs, which will generate a lot of interest for the fans, ... The stage is now set and the fans have been looking for a change. We set a target of about five years to get out of the Third Division, looking to the examples of Inverness Caledonian Thistle and Ross County. That has now been achieved, but we are realistic enough to know that this time next year the club could be involved in its first ever relegation battle.

After all there is but one race -- humanity.

A very slight change in our habits is sufficient to destroy our sense of our daily reality, and the reality of the world about us the moment we pass out of our habits we lose all sense of permanency and routine

It's about as drastic as you can imagine, ... It's a real blow to the entire industry and it will probably be 20, 25 years before we get back to a sense of normalcy.

We do want to see international and American investment in Zaire, but right now, investment is going to be affected by the fact that there is a civil war.

Genius and stupidity never stray from their respective paths talent wanders to and fro, following every light.

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

It appears to me that in Ethics, as in all other philosophical studies, the difficulties and disagreements, of which history is full, are mainly due to a very simple cause namely to the attempt to answer questions, without first discovering precisel.