There is no sin except stupidity.

There is no mode of action, no form of emotion, that we do not share with the lower animals. It is only by language that we rise above them.

Intuition is a strange instinct that tells a woman she is right, whether she is or not.

Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everybody in good society holds exactly the same opinions.

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

Like dear St. Francis of Assisi I am wedded to Poverty: but in my case the marriage is not a success.

Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.