That is partly why women marry - to keep up the fiction of being in the hub of things.

Sins cut boldly up through every class in society, but mere misdemeanours show a certain level in life.

Don't you understand that all language is dead currency? How they keep on playing shop with it all the same.

Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk.

Art is for [the Irish] inseparable from artifice: of that, the theatre is the home. Possibly, it was England made me a novelist.

Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do.

children like change - for one thing, they never anticipate regret.