Moral Laws Quotes by George Edward Moore

The lot of critics is to be remembered by what they failed to understand.

— George Edward Moore

Faith goes out through the window when beauty comes in at the door.

— George Edward Moore

Now, in my opinion, a woman has no business with Power-Power admits no equal, and dismisses friendship for flattery. Besides, it keeps the men…

— George Edward Moore

Honesty needs no pains to set itself off.

— George Edward Moore

I am free in performing an action if I could have done otherwise if I had chosen to.

— George Edward Moore

A great artist is always before his time or behind it.

— George Edward Moore

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?

— George Edward Moore

Beauty has wings, and too hastily flies, and love, unrewarded, soon sickens and dies.

— George Edward Moore

It does not matter how badly you paint so long as you don't paint badly like other people.

— George Edward Moore

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…

— George Edward Moore

But I have seen thee And thou art enough.

— George Edward Moore

Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.

— George Edward Moore

If I am asked 'what is good?' my answer is that good is good, and that is the end of the matter.

— George Edward Moore

But from the hoop's bewitching round, Her very shoe has power to wound.

— George Edward Moore

All moral laws are merely statements that certain kinds of actions will have good effects.

— George Edward Moore