George Edward Moore Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“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.”
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“All moral laws are merely statements that certain kinds of actions will have good effects.”
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“But I have seen thee And thou art enough.”
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“Faith goes out through the window when beauty comes in at the door.”
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“The lot of critics is to be remembered by what they failed to understand.”
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“If I am asked 'what is good?' my answer is that good is good, and that is the end of the matter.”
-- George Edward MooreSource : George Edward Moore (2004). “Principia Ethica”, p.6, Courier Corporation
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“I am free in performing an action if I could have done otherwise if I had chosen to.”
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“Beauty has wings, and too hastily flies, and love, unrewarded, soon sickens and dies.”
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“Now, in my opinion, a woman has no business with Power-Power admits no equal, and dismisses friendship for flattery. Besides, it keeps the men at a distance, and that is not always what we wish.”
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“I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice.”
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“Honesty needs no pains to set itself off.”
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“'Tis now the summer of your youth: time has not cropped the roses from your cheek, though sorrow long has washed them.”
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“I'll tell thee what it says; it calls me villain, a treacherous husband, a cruel father, a false brother; one lost to nature and her charities; or to say all in one short word, it calls me - Gamester.”
-- George Edward MooreSource : "The Gamester", Act II, scene 1, as quoted Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 306-07, 1922.
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“Can't I another's face commend, Or to her virtues be a friend, But instantly your forehead louers, As if her merit lessen'd yours?”
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“But from the hoop's bewitching round, Her very shoe has power to wound.”
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“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.”
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