What a silly thing love is! It is not half as useful as logic, for it does not prove anything and it is always telling one things that are not going to happen, and making one believe things that are not true.

The mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-à-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.

Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

He had that curious love of green, which in individuals is always the sign of a subtle artistic temperament, and in nations is said to denote a laxity, if not a decadence of morals.

The English country-gentleman galloping after a fox — the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.

Never buy a thing you don't want merely because it is dear.

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