24 Quotes by George Edward Moore

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

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.

I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice.

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

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.

'Tis now the summer of your youth: time has not cropped the roses from your cheek, though sorrow long has washed them.

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

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

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