Self-denial is not a virtue; it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.

The nation's morals are like its teeth: the more decayed they are the more it hurts to touch them.

The shot Irishmen will now take their places beside Emmet and the Manchester Martyrs in Ireland, and beside the heroes of Poland and Sérbia and Belgium in Europe; and nothing in heaven or earth can prevent it.

I occasionally swank a little because people like it; a modest man is such a nuisance.

Defeatism is the wretchedest of policies.

A cigarette is a pinch of tobacco rolled in paper with fire at one end and a fool at the other.

There is in man a specific lust for cruelty which infects even his passion of pity and makes it savage.