The Dublin Magazine’ has been edited with good taste, and it is very agreeable reading, but to speak quite candidly, I do not believe in the future of any literary journal any more than I believe in the future of the Trinity. George A. Moore Read Quote
You will find in me a middle aged man with a career behind me sufficiently brilliant to enable me to talk about many things interestingly; and I am not an unkindly soul, I believe. George A. Moore Read Quote
Dublin dwindles so beautifully; there is no harsh separation between it and the country. It fades away, whereas London seems to devour the country; an army of buildings come and take away a beautiful park, and you never seem to get quite out of sight of a row of houses. George A. Moore Read Quote
I have written 30,000 words in a month – think of it – 30,000! I hope I am putting the right number of naughts: an average of a thousand words a day! For thirty days! George A. Moore Read Quote
The right I claim is that of every human being to speak what he believes to be the truth to whomever he may meet on his way. George A. Moore Read Quote
Every race gets the religion it deserves, and only as policemen, pugilists, and priests have they succeeded, here and there a successful lawyer, but nothing more serious. George A. Moore Read Quote
An idea is so impersonal; it is yours today and the whole world’s tomorrow. George A. Moore Read Quote
Some men spend their lives watching bees and ants, noting down the habits of these insects; my pleasure is to watch the human mind, noting how unselfish instincts rise to the surface and sink back again, making way for selfish instincts, each equally necessary, for the world would perish were it to become entirely selfish or entirely unselfish. George A. Moore Read Quote
England produced Shakespeare, and the British Empire the six-shilling novel. George A. Moore Read Quote
The right of property holds good in all society; but in the West, ethics invade the personal life in a manner unknown to the East, so much so that the Oriental stands agape at our folly, knowing well that every man brings different instincts and ideas into the world with him. George A. Moore Read Quote
