In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language; the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.

I was told that my diet was so poor that I could not repair the bones that were broken and operated on. So I have just had an Xradiograph taken; and lo! perfectly mended solid bone so beautifully white that I have left instructions that, if I die, a glove stretcher is to be made of me and sent to you as a souvenir

If at age 20 you are not a Communist then you have no heart. If at age 30 you are not a Capitalist then you have no brains.

Islam is the best religion and Muslims are the worst followers

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.

Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

The test of good education is seeing how it behaves in a fight.