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.

All progress means war with society.

Opera is when a tenor and soprano want to make love, but are prevented from doing so by a baritone.

It is nearly 50 years since I was assured by a conclave of doctors that if I did not eat meat I should die of starvation.

Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.

Like fingerprints, all marriages are different.

He who confuses political liberty with freedom and political equality with similarity has never thought for five minutes about either.