Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by George Moore (Irish Writer)

George Augustus Moore (1852–1933) was an Irish novelist and man of letters. A naturalistic writer, he was amongst the first English-language authors to absorb the lessons of the French realists. He was mainly influenced by the works of Émile Zola. Often regarded as the first great modern Irish novelist, his writings influenced James Joyce.

Born in Ballyglass, County Mayo, Moore was educated at Oscott College, Birmingham, and intended for the army, but soon became an agnostic, abandoned a military career, and lived a bohemian life in London and Paris until Zola’s example revealed to him his true profession as a novelist of the Realist school.

Moore introduced Realist fiction into Great Britain with his novels of low life, A Modern Lover (1883,) A Mummer’s Wife (1885,) and others. During the Boer War, he sought exile in Ireland, where he wrote Evelyn Innes (1898) and Sister Teresa (1901,) which reflect his increasing interest in love, theology, and the arts, and the stories in An Untilled Field (1903,) which mark a move away from his earlier ‘sordid’ realism.

Moore returned to England early in the century and published his confessions, Memoirs of My Dead Life (1906) and the trilogy Hail and FarewellAve (1911,) Salve (1912,) and Vale (1914)—in which he wrote about his friends and his associates in setting up the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, particularly William Butler Yeats.

Moore’s other later works include The Brook Kerith (1916,) which relates an apocryphal story of Paul and Jesus Christ Among the Essenes, and the mythical Aphrodite in Aulis (1930.)

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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.
George Moore
Topics: World

Everybody sets out to do something, and everybody does something, but no one does what he sets out to do.
George Moore

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

Taking something from one man and making it worse is plagiarism.
George Moore
Topics: Plagiarism

The poor would never be able to live at all if it were not for the poor.
George Moore
Topics: The Poor, Poverty

A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
George Moore
Topics: Self-Discovery, Travel, Love, Home, Discovery

The most vigilant self-criticism of course is necessary, but the time comes when the artist must tell himself he is good or he will go under.
George Moore
Topics: Criticism, Being True to Yourself

The difficulty in life is the choice.
George Moore
Topics: Choice, Difficulty

The difficulty of life is in the choice.
George Moore
Topics: Decisions

After all there is but one race—humanity.
George Moore
Topics: Humanity, Humankind

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.
George Moore

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 Moore
Topics: Compliments, Love

The lot of critics is to be remembered by what they failed to understand.
George Moore
Topics: Criticism

When any man is more stupidly vain and outrageously egotistic than his fellows, he will hide his hideousness in humanitarianism.
George Moore
Topics: Ego

It appears to me that in Ethics, as in all other philosophical studies, the difficulties and disagreements, of which history is full, are mainly due to a very simple cause: namely to the attempt to answer questions, without first discovering precisel
George Moore
Topics: Ethics

Remorse: beholding heaven and feeling hell.
George Moore
Topics: Remorse

Reality can destroy the dream; why shouldn’t the dream destroy reality?
George Moore
Topics: Reality, Dream

There is nothing so consoling as to find one’s neighbor’s troubles are at least as great as one’s own.
George Moore
Topics: Trials, Justice

Our ideas are here today and gone tomorrow, whereas our feelings are always with us, and we recognize those who feel like us, and at once, by a sort of instinct.
George Moore
Topics: Emotions

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