Youth is the only thing worth having.
If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.
We Irish will never achieve anything; but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks
Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed.
If a man needs an elaborate tombstone in order to remain in the memory of his country, it is clear that his living at all was an act of absolute superfluity.
Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.