Vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people.

Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.

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

It is only the unimaginative who ever invents. The true artist is known by the use he makes of what he annexes.

Veni vidi veni iterum! (I came, I saw, I came again!)

I don't recognize you - I've changed a lot.

When our eyes met, I felt that I was growing pale. A curious sensation of terror came over me. I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself.