It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor.

I have never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from other men. There is not much harm in a lion. He has no ideals, no religion, no politics, no chivalry, no gentility; in short, no reason for destroying anything that he does not want to eat

No man manages his affairs as well as a tree does

The most revolutionary invention of the Nineteenth Century was the artificial sterilization of marriage.

Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

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.