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.

It is assumed that the woman must wait, motionless, until she is wooed. That is how the spider waits for the fly.

Once the divinity we worshipped made itself visible and comprehensible, we crucified it.

Reviewing has one advantage over suicide: in suicide you take it out on yourself; in reviewing you take it out on other people.

The whole strength of England lies in the fact that the enormous majority of the English people are snobs.

The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.

There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.