Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.

If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence.

Books want to be born: I never make them. They come to me and insist on being written, and on being such and such.

The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.

In old times people used to try and square the circle; now they try and devise schemes for satisfying the Irish nation.

Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.