When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively boring.

I love to talk about nothing. It's the only thing I know anything about.

Every woman is a rebel.

Ah, on what little things does happiness depend! I have read all that the wise men have written, and all the secrets of philosophy are mine, yet for want of a red rose is my life made wretched.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility!

I love acting. It is so much more real than life.

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.