Good general-purpose manners nowadays may be said to consist in knowing how much you can get away with.
Sport and death are the two great socializing factors in Ireland.
life is a succession of readjustments.
No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.
The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written.
...there must be something she wanted; and that therefore she was no lady.