George A. Moore Zitate auf Englisch

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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.

George A. Moore

A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.

George A. Moore

The wrong way always seems the more reasonable.

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

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

George A. Moore

'The Dublin Magazine' has been edited with good taste, and it is very agreeable reading, but to speak quite candidly, I do not believe in the future of any literary journal any more than I believe in the future of the Trinity.

George A. Moore

I do not believe in a universal religion any more than I believe in a universal language. My feeling is that people have to make their own religion as they have to make their arts and their parishes, and that they must find their own salvation; the salvation mongers are of not much avail.

George A. Moore

A man of letters never objects to a slum. He sharpens his pen there.

George A. Moore

Reality can destroy the dream; why shouldn't the dream destroy reality?

George A. Moore

Everybody sets out to do something, and everybody does something, but no one does what he sets out to do.

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!

George A. Moore

The right of property holds good in all society; but in the West, ethics invade the personal life in a manner unknown to the East, so much so that the Oriental stands agape at our folly, knowing well that every man brings different instincts and ideas into the world with him.

George A. Moore

The difficulty in life is the choice.

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.

George A. Moore

Taking something from one man and making it worse is plagiarism.

George A. Moore