All great art and literature is propaganda.
I never climbed any ladder: I have achieved eminence by sheer gravitation.
Eternal is the fact that the human creature born in Ireland and brought up in its air is Irish. I have lived for twenty years in Ireland and for seventy-two in England; but the twenty came first and in Britain I am still a foreigner and shall die one.
The road to ignorance is paved with good editors.
Women have been a ghastly nuisance in my life.
Where there is no religion, hypocrisy becomes good taste.