Drawbacks are good when you are on holiday. If the holiday were too good you might not want to go home again.

It is a horrible demoralizing thing to be a lawyer. You look for such low motives in everyone and everything.

I have often heard it said that the Irish are too ready to forgive. It is a noble failing.

Irish people have a trick of over-statement, at which one ceases to wince as one grows older.

To be a saint does not exclude fine dresses nor a beautiful house.

Often our bad moments are self-propelled ... And the drama is almost exclusively within our heads and hearts.

There is an Irish way of paying compliments as though they were irresistible truths which makes what would otherwise be an impertinence delightful.