Top 25 Quotes by George A. Moore

About George A. Moore

These are some quotes by Irish author George A. Moore Novelist, who lived between February 24, 1852 and January 21, 1933.

Remorse: beholding heaven and feeling hell.

Remorse: beholding heaven and feeling hell.

George A. Moore

Every race gets the religion it deserves, and only as policemen, pugilists, and priests have they succeeded, here and there a successful lawyer, but nothing more serious.

Every race gets the religion it deserves, and only as policemen, pugilists, and priests have they succeeded, here and there a successful lawyer, but nothing more serious.

George A. Moore

An idea has been running in my head that books lose and gain qualities in the course of time, and I have worried over it a good deal, for what seemed to be a paradox, I felt to be a truth.

An idea has been running in my head that books lose and gain qualities in the course of time, and I have worried over it a good deal, for what seemed to be a paradox, I felt to be a truth.

George A. Moore

The wrong way always seems the more reasonable.

The wrong way always seems the more reasonable.

George A. Moore

Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end.

Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end.

George A. Moore

Some men spend their lives watching bees and ants, noting down the habits of these insects; my pleasure is to watch the human mind, noting how unselfish instincts rise to the surface and sink back again, making way for selfish instincts, each equally necessary, for the world would perish were it to become entirely selfish or entirely unselfish.

George A. Moore

To what better purpose can a man's energy be devoted, and his talents, than the resuscitation of his country's language?

To what better purpose can a man's energy be devoted, and his talents, than the resuscitation of his country's language?

George A. Moore

The truth is that I am in love with Dublin. I think it is the most beautiful town that I have ever seen, mountains at the back and the sea in front, and long roads winding through decaying suburbs and beautiful woods.

George A. Moore

I have written 30,000 words in a month - think of it - 30,000! I hope I am putting the right number of naughts: an average of a thousand words a day! For thirty days!

I have written 30,000 words in a month - think of it - 30,000! I hope I am putting the right number of naughts: an average of a thousand words a day! For thirty days!

George A. Moore

You will find in me a middle aged man with a career behind me sufficiently brilliant to enable me to talk about many things interestingly; and I am not an unkindly soul, I believe.

You will find in me a middle aged man with a career behind me sufficiently brilliant to enable me to talk about many things interestingly; and I am not an unkindly soul, I believe.

George A. Moore

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