The worst cliques are those which consist of one man.

I have defined the hundred per cent American as ninety-nine per cent an idiot.

Very nice sort of place, Oxford, I should think, for people that like that sort of place. They teach you to be a gentleman there. In the polytechnic they teach you to be an engineer or such like. See?

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

The best way to get your point across is to entertain.

The heart of an Irishman is nothing but his imagination

There is nothing on earth more exquisite than a bonny book, with well-placed columns of rich black writing in beautiful borders, and illuminated pictures cunningly inset. But nowadays, instead of looking at books, people read them. A book might as well be one of those orders for bacon and bran.