But to admire a strong person and to live under that strong person’s thumb are two different things.

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

Eternal is the fact that the human creature born in Ireland and brought up in its air is Irish. I have lived for twenty years in Ireland and for seventy-two in England; but the twenty came first and in Britain I am still a foreigner and shall die one.

Wise kings wear shabby clothes, and leave the gold lace to the drum major.

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.

My schooling did me a great deal of harm and no good whatever; it was simply dragging a child's soul through the dirt.

The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.