People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly that it's impossible to count them accurately.

But she is happiest alone. She is happiest alone.

Public Opinion... an attempt to organize the ignorance of the community, and to elevate it to the dignity of physical force.

The people who have adored me-- there have not been very many, but there have been some-- have always insisted on living on, long after I had ceased to care for them, or they to care for me.

Believe me, no civilized man ever regrets a pleasure, and no uncivilized man ever knows what a pleasure is.

I am quite incapable of understanding how any work of art can be criticized from a moral standpoint. The sphere of art and the sphere of ethics are absolutely distinct and separate.

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