George Edward Moore Quotes

• If I am asked 'what is good?' my answer is that good is good, and that is the end of the matter.

  George Edward Moore

  Answers, Matter, Ends

  George Edward Moore (2004). “Principia Ethica”, p.6, Courier Corporation

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

  George Edward Moore

  Doors, Window

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• I am free in performing an action if I could have done otherwise if I had chosen to.

  George Edward Moore

  Done, Action, Performing

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• Beauty has wings, and too hastily flies, and love, unrewarded, soon sickens and dies.

  George Edward Moore

  Beauty, Wings, And Love

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

  George Edward Moore

  Law, Moral, Action

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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.

  George Edward Moore

  Love, Inspirational, Romantic

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

  George Edward Moore

  Critics, Remembered, Be Remembered By

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• I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice.

  George Edward Moore

  Dream, Rich, Avarice

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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.

  George Edward Moore

  Distance, Men, Wish

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• Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.

  George Edward Moore

  Love, Romantic, Valentines Day

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• Honesty needs no pains to set itself off.

  George Edward Moore

  Honesty, Pain, Needs

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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.

  George Edward Moore

  Summer, July, Long

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• But from the hoop's bewitching round, Her very shoe has power to wound.

  George Edward Moore

  Power, Shoes, Rounds

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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 Moore

  Brother, Husband, Father

  "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?

  George Edward Moore

  Jealous, Faces, Merit

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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.

  George Edward Moore

  Cities, Taverns, Noble

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