The best one can say of modern creative art is that it is just a little less vulgar than reality.

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

It is love, and not German philosophy, that is the true explanation of the world, whatever may be the explanation of the next.

Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious.

Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob.

As it was, we always misunderstood ourselves and rarely understood others. Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

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