Let no one suppose that the words doctor and patient can disguise from the parties the fact that they are employer and employee.

Sister, you're trying to keep me alive as an old curiosity, but I'm done, I'm finished, I'm going to die.

It is not pleasure that makes life worth living. It is life that makes pleasure worth having.

If we have come to think that the nursery and the kitchen are the natural sphere of a woman, we have done so exactly as English children come to think that a cage is the natural sphere of a parrot: because they have never seen one anywhere else.

The theory that music has a depraving effect on morals has now been abandoned to the old women of both sexes.

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 person who acts sensibly is my tailor. He takes my measure anew every time he sees me. Everyone else goes by their old measurements.