George MooreThinkers

Anthony Trollope is a hack — Did anyone bear a name that predicted a style more Trollopy?

Art is time or behind it.

The Critic is remembered by what they failed to understand.

Ireland is a fatal disease, fatal to Englishmen and doubly fatal to Irishmen.

Ireland is a little Russia in which the longest way round is the shortest way home.

James Joyce thinks he is a great hero because he prints all the dirty little words.

Joseph Conrad is the wreck of Robert Louis Stevenson floating about on the slip-slop of Henry James.

Life is a rose that withers in the iron fist of dogma.

A Literary movement is five or six people who live in the same town and hate each other cordially.

Modern art is governed by the idea that it does not matter how badly you paint so long as you don't paint badly like other people.

Oscar Wilde is a writer whose talent seems to be essentially rootless, something growing in a glass on a little water.