How clever you are, my dear! You never mean a single word you say.

Nowadays, all the married men live like bachelors, and all the bachelors like married men.

The great events of the world take place in the brain.

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

If you want to be a doormat you have to lay yourself down first.

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

But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face. The moment one sits down to think, one becomes all nose, or all forehead, or something horrid. Look at the successful men in any of the learned professions. How perfectly hideous they are! Except, of course, in the Church. But then in the Church they don't think.