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
home man needs returns travel travels
A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
home man needs returns search travel travels
A man travels the world in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
honesty pain needs
Honesty needs no pains to set itself off.
man
Taking something from one man and making it worse is plagiarism.
way seems reasonable
The wrong way always seems the more reasonable.
art philosophy history
Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end.
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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.
love running dream
Reality can destroy the dream; why shouldn't the dream destroy reality?
It does not matter how badly you paint so long as you don't paint badly like other people.
art artist behind great time
A great artist is always before his time or behind it.
love romantic valentines-day
But I have seen thee And thou art enough.
critics remembered be-remembered-by
The lot of critics is to be remembered by what they failed to understand.
jealous faces merit
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?
dream rich avarice
I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice.