Morals are a luxury of the rich.

Never resist temptation: prove all things: hold fast that which is good.

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.

The only time my education was interrupted was when I was in school.

Spend all you have before you die, and do not outlive yourself.

I'm one of the undeserving poor: that's what I am. Think of what that means to a man. It means that he's up agen middle class morality all the time.... What is middle class morality? Just an excuse for never giving me anything.

There is only one belief that can rob death of its sting and the grave of its victory. For without that you cannot be born again.