Quilty grimaces. “I don’t like what comes after ‘dicker.’ ” “What is that?” Quilty sighs. “Dickest. I mean, really: it’s not a contest!


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Sweet is the dream, divinely sweet,
When absent souls in fancy meet.
THOMAS MOORE
Left eyebrow raised, right eyebrow raised.
ROGER MOORE
Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career.
GRACE MOORE
A literary movement consists of five or six people who live in the same town and hate each other cor...
GEORGE MOORE
He who hasn't hacked assemply language as a youth has no heart. He who does as an adult has no brain...
JOHN MOORE
If we were to bring creativity down to earth, it would not have to be reserved for exceptional indiv...
THOMAS MOORE
The difficulty in life is the choice.
GEORGE MOORE
It's not about the press. It's not about the notoriety or the celebrity status or anything like that...
GREG MOORE
It really isn't anybody's business how many people we have working for us. What's offensive is that ...
DEMI MOORE
It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.
MARIANNE MOORE
The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simpli...
THOMAS MOORE
There is no stronger bond of friendship than a mutual enemy.
FRANKFORT MOORE
Egotism is usually subversive of sagacity.
MARIANNE MOORE
There is nothing so consoling as to find one's neighbor's troubles are at least as great as one's ow...
GEORGE MOORE
When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but ev...
MARIANNE MOORE
My father used to say superior people never make long visits.
MARIANNE MOORE
The minstrel fell but the foeman's chain
could not break his proud soul under.
The harp he lov...
THOMAS MOORE
Research is usually a policeman stopping a novel from progressing.
BRIAN MOORE
Taking something from one man and making it worse is plagiarism.
GEORGE MOORE
The world's made up of individuals who don't want to be heroes.
BRIAN MOORE
'Tis the last rose of summer, left blooming alone; all her lovely companions are faded and gone.
THOMAS MOORE
Superior people never make long visits.
MARIANNE MOORE
The bird let loose in Eastern skies,
Returning fondly home,
Ne'er stoops to earth her wing, no...
THOMAS MOORE
It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury.
THOMAS MOORE
Everybody sets out to do something, and everybody does something, but no one does what he sets out t...
GEORGE MOORE
Reality can destroy the dream; why shouldn't the dream destroy reality?
GEORGE MOORE
With what a deep devotedness of woe I wept thy absence--o'er and o'er again Thinking of thee, ...
THOMAS MOORE
A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
GEORGE MOORE
No place in England where everyone can go is considered respectable.
GEORGE MOORE
Remorse: beholding heaven and feeling hell.
GEORGE MOORE
The silent majority distrusts people who believe in causes.
BRIAN MOORE
The only thing you will take through those pearly gates is what you have given away.
MARCIA MOORE
Like the stain'd web that whitens in the sun, Grow pure by being purely shone upon.
THOMAS MOORE
Faintly as tolls the evening chime, Our voices keep tune and our oars keep time, Soon as the w...
THOMAS MOORE
While mantling on the maiden's cheek Young roses kindled into thought.
THOMAS MOORE
Those golden birds that, in the spice-time, drop About the gardens, drunk with that sweet food ...
THOMAS MOORE
Every season hath its pleasure; Spring may boast her flowery prime, Yet the vineyard's ruby tr...
THOMAS MOORE
Like Dead Sea fruit that tempts the eye, But turns to ashes on the lips!
THOMAS MOORE
This speck of life in time's great wilderness This narrow isthmus 'twixt two boundless seas, T...
THOMAS MOORE
Humility, that low, sweet root, From which all heavenly virtues shoot.
THOMAS MOORE