George Moore citáty
George Moore
Datum narození: 24. únor 1852
Datum úmrtí: 21. leden 1933
Další jména: Georgie Moore
George Moore byl irský romanopisec, krátký-příběh, spisovatel, básník, výtvarný kritik a dramatik.
Citáty George Moore
„I will admit that an artist may be great and limited; by one word he may light up an abyss of soul; but there must be this one magical and unique word.“
— George Moore (novelist)
Confessions of a Young Man http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12278/12278-h/12278-h.htm (1886), Context: I will admit that an artist may be great and limited; by one word he may light up an abyss of soul; but there must be this one magical and unique word. Shakespeare gives us the word, Balzac, sometimes, after pages of vain striving, gives us the word, Tourgueneff gives it with miraculous certainty; but Henry James, no; a hundred times he flutters about it; his whole book is one long flutter near to the one magical and unique word, but the word is not spoken; and for want of the word his characters are never resolved out of the haze of nebulae. You are on a bowing acquaintance with them; they pass you in the street, they stop and speak to you, you know how they are dressed, you watch the colour of their eyes.
Ch. 12.
„It would appear that practical morality consists in making the meeting of men and women as casual as that of animals.“
— George Moore (novelist)
Memoirs of My Dead Life http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext05/8mmdl10.txt (1906), Apologia Pro Scriptis Meis.
„One thing that cannot be denied to the realists: a constant and intense desire to write well, to write artistically. When I think of what they have done in the matter of the use of words, of the myriad verbal effects they have discovered, of the thousand forms of composition they have created, how they have remodelled and refashioned the language in their untiring striving for intensity of expression for the very osmazome of art, I am lost in ultimate wonder and admiration.“
— George Moore (novelist)
Confessions of a Young Man http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12278/12278-h/12278-h.htm (1886), Ch. 13.
„A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.“
— George Moore (novelist)
The Brook Kerith http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12821/12821-h/12821-h.htm, ch. 11 (1916).
„The mind petrifies if a circle be drawn around it, and it can hardly be denied that dogma draws a circle round the mind.“
— George Moore (novelist)
Hail and Farewell (1912), vol. 2: Salve, Kessinger Publishing, 2005, ISBN 1-417-93272-4, ch. XV (p. 36).
„We humans are more complicated than animals, and we love through the imagination.“
— George Moore (novelist)
Memoirs of My Dead Life http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext05/8mmdl10.txt (1906), Ch. 6: Spent Loves.
„The wrong way always seems the more reasonable.“
— George Moore (novelist)
The Bending of the Bough (1900), Act IV
„A great artist is always before his time or behind it.“
— George Moore (novelist)
As quoted in Conversations with George Moore (1929) by Geraint Goodwin, p. 123
„After all there is but one race — humanity.“
— George Moore (novelist)
The Bending of the Bough (1900), Act III
„But if you want to be a painter you must go to France — France is the only school of Art.“
— George Moore (novelist)
Confessions of a Young Man http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12278/12278-h/12278-h.htm (1886), Ch. 1.
„Faith goes out of the window when beauty comes in at the door.“
— George Moore (novelist)
The Lake http://www.gutenberg.org/files/11304/11304-8.txt (1905) [Appleton, 2005, digitized edition], ch. IX (p. 169).
„Never could I interest myself in a book if it were not the exact diet my mind required at the time, or in the very immediate future. The mind asked, received, and digested. So much was assimilated, so much expelled; then, after a season, similar demands were made, the same processes were repeated out of sight, below consciousness, as is the case in a well-ordered stomach.“
— George Moore (novelist)
Confessions of a Young Man http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12278/12278-h/12278-h.htm (1886), Ch. 2.
„It does not matter how badly you paint so long as you don't paint badly like other people.“
— George Moore (novelist)
Confessions of a Young Man http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12278/12278-h/12278-h.htm (1886), Ch. 6.
„I am filled with pride when I think of the noble and exalted world that must have existed before Christian doctrine caused men to look upon women with suspicion and bade them to think of angels instead.“
— George Moore (novelist)
Memoirs of My Dead Life http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext05/8mmdl10.txt (1906), Apologia Pro Scriptis Meis.
„The difficulty in life is the choice.“
— George Moore (novelist)
The Bending of the Bough (1900), Act IV
„Humanity is a pigsty, where lions, hypocrites, and the obscene in spirit congregate.“
— George Moore (novelist)
Confessions of a Young Man http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12278/12278-h/12278-h.htm (1886), Ch. 16.
