Where there is no religion, hypocrisy becomes good taste.

The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine.

Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.

The problem with the press is that they can't tell the difference between a bicycle crash and the end of civilization.

Ireland, sir, for good or evil, is like no other place under heaven, and no man can touch its sod or breathe its air without becoming better or worse.

In your Salvation shelter I saw poverty, misery, cold and hunger. You gave them bread and treacle and dreams of heaven. I give from thirty shillings a week to twelve thousand a year. They find their own dreams; but I look after the drainage.

We sing in a church, why can we not dance there?