I don't approve the informality in the world today, Mr. James. It's made strangers of us all.

Beware of feelings, Father. They are the biggest liars in us. They make truth what we want it to be.

Very often adverse criticism goes to craft, and that sounds an alarm to which attention should be paid.

History's like a story in a way: it depends on who's telling it.

It's a great wonder to me, the Irish attachment to our history. What is it but a series of lamentations?

No one who likes a song lacks congeniality.

We reveal more of ourselves in the lies we tell than we do when we try to tell the truth.