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

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

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.

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

There’s no snobbery like that of the poor toward one another.

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