I am Irish by race but the English have condemned me to talk the language of Shakespeare.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful.
Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
Nothing annoys people so much as not receiving invitations.
Where there is no love there is no understanding.
Art persists, it timelessly continues.