Morality consists of suspecting other people of not being legally married.

Nationalism must now be added to the refuse pile of superstitions. We are now citizens of the world, and the man who divides the race into elect Irishmen and reprobate foreign devils (especially Englishmen) had better live on the Blaskets where he can admire himself without disturbance.

It is clear that a novel cannot be too bad to be worth publishing. . . . It certainly is possible for a novel to be too good to be worth publishing.

You cannot be a hero without being a coward.

I am oppressed with a dread of living forever. That is the only disadvantage of vegetarianism.

When people shake their heads because we are living in a restless age, ask them how they would like to life in a stationary one, and do without change

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.