Principia Ethica
A source page for quotes linked to George Edward Moore.
“The lot of critics is to be remembered by what they failed to understand.”
“But from the hoop's bewitching round, Her very shoe has power to wound.”
“Beauty has wings, and too hastily flies, and love, unrewarded, soon sickens and dies.”
“I am free in performing an action if I could have done otherwise if I had chosen to.”
“If I am asked 'what is good?' my answer is that good is good, and that is the end of the matter.”
“All moral laws are merely statements that certain kinds of actions will have good effects.”
“Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.”
“Faith goes out through the window when beauty comes in at the door.”