The military mind is indeed a menace. Old-fashioned futurity that sees only men fighting and dying in smoke and fire; hears nothing more civilized than a cannonade; scents nothing but the stink of battle-wounds and blood.

When I stepped from hard manual work to writing, I just stepped from one kind of hard work to another.

We couldn't live without comedy.

All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.

The military mind is indeed a menace. Old-fashioned futurity that sees only men fighting and dying in smoke and fire; hears nothing more civilized than a cannonade; scents nothing but the stink of battle-wounds and blood.

That's the Irish all over -- they treat a joke as a serious thing and a serious thing as a joke.

Wealth often takes away chances from men as well as poverty. There is none to tell the rich to go on striving, for a rich man makes the law that hallows and hollows his own life.