What the hell is an oboe?

Every one of course represents the spirit of his age, but there is an eternal aspect of the Spirit of every age which may be caught. To recreate the past from the mutilated fragments of the present is the task of the Historian.

Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority.

An entirely new factor has appeared in the social development of the country, and this factor is the Irish-American, and his influence. To mature its powers, to concentrate its action, to learn the secret of its own strength and of England's weakness, the Celtic intellect has had to cross the Atlantic. At home it had but learned the pathetic weakness of nationality; in a strange land it realised what indomitable forces nationality possesses. What captivity was to the Jews, exile has been to the Irish: America and American influence have educated them.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won't be invited to cocktail parties.

The only link between Literature and the Drama left to us in England at the present moment is the bill of the play.