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

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

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

The trouble with the Irish question always has been that it was an English question.

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

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

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