I am Irish by race but the English have condemned me to talk the language of Shakespeare.

The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim.

Romantic literature is in effect imaginative lying.

The aim of the liar is simply to charm, to delight, to give pleasure. He is the very basis of civilized society.

To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

There is no sin except stupidity.