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

Good general-purpose manners nowadays may be said to consist in knowing how much you can get away with.

All good dialogue perhaps deals with something unprecedented.

I am fully intelligent only when I write. I have a certain amount of small-change intelligence, which I carry round with me as, at any rate in a town, one has to carry small money, for the needs of the day, the non-writing day. But it seems to me I seldom purely think ... if I thought more I might write less.

It is in this unearthly first hour of spring twilight that earth's almost agonized livingness is most felt. This hour is so dreadful to some people that they hurry indoors and turn on the lights.

Sport and death are the two great socializing factors in Ireland.

I suspect victims; they win in the long run.