George Moore (novelist): Human

George Moore (novelist) was Irish novelist, short-story writer, poet, art critic, memoirist and dramatist. Explore interesting quotes on human.
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“We all want notoriety; our desires on this point, as upon others, are not noble, but the human is very despicable vermin and only tolerable when it tends to the brute, and away from the evangelical.”

George Moore (novelist)

Source: Confessions of a Young Man http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12278/12278-h/12278-h.htm (1886), Ch. 16.

“Humanity is a pigsty, where lions, hypocrites, and the obscene in spirit congregate.”

George Moore (novelist)

Source: Confessions of a Young Man http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12278/12278-h/12278-h.htm (1886), Ch. 16.

“After all there is but one race — humanity.”

George Moore (novelist)

Act III
The Bending of the Bough (1900)

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

George Moore (novelist)

Source: Memoirs of My Dead Life http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext05/8mmdl10.txt (1906), Ch. 6: Spent Loves.

Love , Imagination , Animals