Quotes by George Moore

“Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.”

“Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.”

“Their story, yours and mine - its what we all carry with us on this trip we take, and we owe it to each other to respect our stories and learn from them”

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

We live in our desires rather than in our achievements

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

The difficulty of life is in the choice.

So long as one does not despair so long as one doesnt 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.

After all there is but one race - humanity.

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

But theres nothing half so sweet in life As loves young dream.

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

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

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

All reformers are bachelors.

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

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

The time Ive lost in wooing In watching and pursuing The light that lies In womans eyes Has been my hearts undoing.