When you've told someone that you've left them a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.

Nobody shoots at Santa Claus.

The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.

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

I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.

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

If I die prematurely at any rate I shall be saved from being bored to death by my own success.