Dancing is a very crude attempt to get into the rhythm of life.

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 Artists are Anarchists.

Is the devil to have all the passions as well as all the good tunes?

Of the two lots, the woman's lot of perpetual motherhood, and the man's of perpetual babyhood, I prefer the man's.

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

Remember always that the least plain sister is the family beauty.