We Irish will never achieve anything; but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks

For a year after that was done to me I wept every day at the same hour and for the same space of time. That is not such a tragic thing as possibly it sounds to you. To those who are in prison tears are a part of every day's experience. A day in prison on which one does not weep is a day on which one's heart is hard, not a day on which one's heart is happy.

Individualism has really the higher aim. Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one's age.

There were opium-dens, where one could buy oblivion, dens of horror where the memory of old sins could be destroyed by the madness of sins that were new.

To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity.

Be warned in time, James, and remain, as I do, incomprehensible: to be great is to be misunderstood.

Misfortunes one can endure--they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults--ah!--there is the sting of life.