George A. Moore
George A. Moore
George Augustus Moorewas an Irish novelist, short-story writer, poet, art critic, memoirist and dramatist. Moore came from a Roman Catholic landed family who lived at Moore Hall in Carra, County Mayo. He originally wanted to be a painter, and studied art in Paris during the 1870s. There, he befriended many of the leading French artists and writers of the day...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth24 February 1852
CountryIreland
It does not matter how badly you paint so long as you don't paint badly like other people.
home man needs returns search travel travels
A man travels the world in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
home man needs returns travel travels
A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
man
Taking something from one man and making it worse is plagiarism.
art artist behind great time
A great artist is always before his time or behind it.
love running dream
Reality can destroy the dream; why shouldn't the dream destroy reality?
love romantic valentines-day
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.
beauty wings and-love
Beauty has wings, and too hastily flies, and love, unrewarded, soon sickens and dies.
summer rose long
'Tis now the summer of your youth: time has not cropped the roses from your cheek, though sorrow long has washed them.
doors window
Faith goes out through the window when beauty comes in at the door.
matter answers ends
If I am asked 'what is good?' my answer is that good is good, and that is the end of the matter.
done action performing
I am free in performing an action if I could have done otherwise if I had chosen to.
brother husband father
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.
honesty pain needs
Honesty needs no pains to set itself off.