George Moore Quotes

This world is all a fleeting show For man's illusion given The smiles of joy the tears of woe Deceitful shine deceitful flow - There's nothing true but Heaven.

We live in our desires rather than in our achievements

The difficulty of life is in the choice.

A literary movement consists of five or six people who live in the same town and hate each other cordially.

Those evening bells! those evening bells! How many a tale their music tells!

After all there is but one race - humanity.

But there's nothing half so sweet in life As love's young dream.

The moment we pass out of our habits we lose all sense of permanency and routine.

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

The time I've lost in wooing In watching and pursuing The light that lies In woman's eyes Has been my heart's undoing.

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

All reformers are bachelors.

Who can say for certain that he is sincere, who can say for certain that he believes? In the midst of of our deepest emotions we are acting a comedy with ourselves; within us one self is always mocking another self. - priscilla and emily lofte

No place in England where everyone can go is considered respectable.

Ireland is a fatal disease fatal to Englishmen and doubly fatal to Irishmen.

The harp that once through Tara's halls The soul of music shed Now hangs as mute on Tara's walls As if that soul were fled.

So long as one does not despair so long as one doesn't look upon life bitterly things work out fairly well in the end.

Tis the last rose of summer. Left blooming alone.

Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.