George Moore (novelist)

"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…"

"The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it... you and you alone make me feel that I am alive... Other men it is said have seen an…"

"My soul, so far as I understand it, has very kindly taken colour and form from the many various modes of life that self-will and an impetuous temperament have forced me to indulge in. Therefore I may …"

"The difficulty in life is the choice."

"A great artist is always before his time or behind it."

"Acting is therefore the lowest of the arts, if it is an art at all."

"But if you want to be a painter you must go to France — France is the only school of Art."

"We humans are more complicated than animals, and we love through the imagination."