In order to fully realize how bad a popular play can be, it is necessary to see it twice.

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

No king on earth is as safe in his job as a Trade Union official. There is only one thing that can get him sacked; and that is drink. Not even that, as long as he doesn't actually fall down.

Most people do not pray; they only beg.

Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.

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.

Assassination on the scaffold is the worst form of assassination.