Orchestras only need to be sworn at, and a German is consequently at an advantage with them, as English profanity, except in America, has not gone beyond a limited technology of perdition.

Some people look at the world and say 'why?' Some people look at the world and say 'why not?'

They tell me that So-and-So, who does not write prefaces, is no charlatan. Well, I am. I first caught the ear of the British public on a cart in Hyde Park, to the blaring of brass bands,and this . . . because . . . I am a natural-born mountebank.

If a group of beings from another planet were to land on Earth - beings who considered themselves as superior to you as you feel yourself to be to other animals - would you concede them the rights over you that you assume over other animals?

We all go about longing for love: it is the first need of our natures, the loudest cry of our hearts.

I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way: by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could.

The only way for a woman to provide for herself decently is for her to be good to some man that can afford to be good to her.