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.

Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.

The most revolutionary invention of the Nineteenth Century was the artificial sterilization of marriage.

What use are cartridges in battle? I always carry chocolate instead.

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.

He never does a proper thing without giving an improper reason for it.

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.