Caricature is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.

this woman is a genius in the day time and a beauty at night

You silly Arthur! If you knew anything about...anything, which you don't, you would know that I adore you. Everyone in London knows it except you. It is a public scandal the way I adore you. I have been going about for the last six months telling the whole of society that I adore you. I wonder you consent to have anything to say to me. I have no character left at all. At least, I feel so happy that I am quite sure I have no character left at all.

Married men are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not.

George Moore leads his readers to the latrine and locks them in.

Now and then the fantastic shadows of birds in flight flitted across the long tussore-silk curtains that were stretched in front of the huge window, producing a kind of momentary Japanese effect, and making him think of those pallid, jade-faced painters of Tokyo who, through the medium of an art that is necessarily immobile, seek to convey the sense of swiftness and motion.

The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.