The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works.

And then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will yes.

And when all was said and done the lies a fellow told about himself couldn't probably hold a proverbial candle to the wholesale whoppers other fellows coined about him.

I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world.

Mr. Duffy lived a short distance from his body.

My intention was to write a chapter of the moral history of my country and I chose Dublin for the scene because that city seemed to me the centre of paralysis.

There's no friends like the old friends.