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Artists, like the Greek gods, are only revealed to one another.
There is something very morbid about modern sympathy with pain.
we always misunderstood ourselves, and rarely understood others
Put your talent into your work, but your genius into your life.
In every first novel the hero is the author as Christ or Faust.
Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.
To get back one's youth one has merely to repeat one's follies.
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
Those who see any difference between soul and body have neither
Friendship never forgets. That is the wonderful thing about it.
Nothing spoils romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman
I never forget a face, but in your case I'll make an exception.
Imagination is imitative-the real innovation lies in criticism.
It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you place the blame.
The English have a miraculous power of turning wine into water.
He has no enemies, but he is intensely disliked by his friends.
I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays.
Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
It is not the prisoners who need reformation, it is the prisons.
I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones.
Simple pleasures are the last healthy refuge in a complex world.
It is not the perfect, but the imperfect, who have need of love.
It is better to repent a sin than regret the loss of a pleasure.
If you want to be a doormat you have to lay yourself down first.
A woman who cannot make her mistakes charming, is only a female.
One's dreams must be big enough so as not to lose sight of them.
The only beautiful things are the things that do not concern us.
The note of the perfect personality is not rebellion, but peace.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
The story of mankind began in a garden and ended in revelations.
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
It takes a thoroughly good woman to do a thoroughly stupid thing
George Moore leads his readers to the latrine and locks them in.
I must decline your invitation owing to a subsequent engagement.
Every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character.
What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise
We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.
He who stands most remote from his age is he who mirrors it best.
George Moore wrote brilliant English until he discovered grammar.
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
He hasn't an enemy in the world, and none of his friend like him.
I often take exercise. Why only yesterday I had breakfast in bed.
Let me be surrounded by luxury, I can do without the necessities!
A man who marries his mistress leaves a vacancy in that position.
I am tired of myself to-night. I should like to be somebody else.
The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life.
Thinking is wonderful, but the experience is even more wonderful.
I do not approve of anything which tampers with natural ignorance