What right has any human being to talk of bringing up a child? You do not bring up a tree or a plant. It brings itself up. You have to give it a fair chance by tilling the soil.

To be a champion you must live like one.

Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree.

Of all human struggles there is none so treacherous and remorseless as the struggle between the artist man and the mother woman.

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.

Nothing makes a man so selfish as work.

Imagination is the beginning of creation.