Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.

To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.

There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.

By an epiphany he meant a sudden spiritual manifestation, whether in the vulgarity of speech or of gesture or memorable phrase of the mind itself. He believed it was for the man of letters to record these epiphanies with extreme care (saving them for later use, that is), seeing that they themselves are the most delicate and evanescent of moments.

When the Irishman is found outside of Ireland in another environment, he very often becomes a respected man. The economic and intellectual conditions that prevail in his own country do not permit the development of individuality. No one who has any self-respect stays in Ireland, but flees afar as though from a country that has undergone the visitation of an angered Jove.

A woman loses a charm with every pin she takes out.

What is better than to sit at the end of the day and drink wine with friends, or substitutes for friends?