Books Quote by George A. Moore Download Open image “England produced Shakespeare, and the British Empire the six-shilling novel.” — George A. Moore ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books British British empire England Novel
England has two books, the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare,but the Bible made England. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
England has two books, one which she has made and one which has made her: Shakespeare and the Bible. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
At the height of the British Empire very few English novels were written that dealt with British power. It's extraordinary that at the moment… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
If you grow up in Britain, you just do Shakespeare. If you go and work in a theater once or twice or three times… — Timothy Dalton Copy Share Image
Shakespeare was completely fictionalising the people who were then the great celebrities of English. — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
I've done a lot of Shakespeare onstage, and I'm not convinced that the Earl of Oxford was the author of all those works, but… — Rhys Ifans Copy Share Image
I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense... I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash. — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
“The Six was everything that a book club book should be: short at two hundred pages, highbrow because it dealt with English history, and… — Kathy Cooperman Copy Share Image
Because British actors hold Shakespeare in such great reverence, we tend to go for the word, which tends to make things very intellectual. — Geraldine James Copy Share Image
“the British Empire now stood at the very apex of modern civilization, and that it was the special burden of this empire to spread… — Scott Anderson Copy Share Image
Few people know anything of the English history but what they learn from Shakespear; for our story is rather a tissue of personal adventures… — Elizabeth Montagu Copy Share Image
People constantly express surprise that Americans are so hot for Shakespeare. But Britain's culture is American culture, too. — Sam Wanamaker Copy Share Image
The right I claim is that of every human being to speak what he believes to be the truth to whomever he may meet… — George A. Moore Copy Share Image
The right of property holds good in all society; but in the West, ethics invade the personal life in a manner unknown to the… — George A. Moore Copy Share Image
Reality can destroy the dream; why shouldn't the dream destroy reality? — George A. Moore Copy Share Image
I have written 30,000 words in a month - think of it - 30,000! I hope I am putting the right number of naughts:… — George A. Moore Copy Share Image
A man of letters never objects to a slum. He sharpens his pen there. — George A. Moore Copy Share Image
Dublin dwindles so beautifully; there is no harsh separation between it and the country. It fades away, whereas London seems to devour the country;… — George A. Moore Copy Share Image
Everybody sets out to do something, and everybody does something, but no one does what he sets out to do. — George A. Moore Copy Share Image
Some men spend their lives watching bees and ants, noting down the habits of these insects; my pleasure is to watch the human mind,… — George A. Moore Copy Share Image
'The Dublin Magazine' has been edited with good taste, and it is very agreeable reading, but to speak quite candidly, I do not believe… — George A. Moore Copy Share Image
The truth is that I am in love with Dublin. I think it is the most beautiful town that I have ever seen, mountains… — George A. Moore Copy Share Image
An idea has been running in my head that books lose and gain qualities in the course of time, and I have worried over… — George A. Moore Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
