George A. Moore Quotes
Everybody sets out to do something, and everybody does something, but no one does what he sets out to do.
Citations
Moore, George. The Bending of the Bough: A Comedy in Five Acts. T. Fisher Unwin, 1900, p. 112.
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George Augustus Moore was an Irish novelist, short-story writer, poet, art critic, memoirist and dramatist. Moore came from a Roman Catholic landed family who lived at Moore Hall in Carra, County Mayo. He originally wanted to be a painter, and studied art in Paris during the 1870s. There, he befriended many of the leading French artists and writers of the day.