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

Well, I know, of course, how important it is not to keep a business engagement, if one wants to retain any sense of the beauty of life.

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.

And certainly once a man begins to neglect his domestic duties he becomes painfully effeminate, does he not? And I don't like that. It makes men so very attractive.

Education is very admirable but let us not forget that anything worth knowing cannot be taught.

A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.

Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected.