For life is terribly deficient in form. Its catastrophes happen in the wrong way and to the wrong people. There is a grotesque horror about its comedies, and its tragedies seem to culminate in farce.

She knew nothing, but she had everything that he had lost.

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

I should have remembered that when one is going to lead an entirely new life, one requires regular and wholesome meals.

Life would be dull without them.

I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art.

Rugby is a game for barbarians played by gentlemen. Football is a game for gentlemen played by barbarians.