Sometimes it seems your ever-increasing list of things to do can leave you feeling totally undone.

Perhaps it’s true, my happiest moments are the anticipation of other moments still to come.

Motherhood: the days are long, the years are short.

Ireland regards sex, when she regards it at all, with an entirely primitive and practical eye.

We in Ireland are gifted beyond most peoples with a talent for acting, and in Dublin especially, while scorning culture, which indeed we have not got, we are possessed of a most futile and diverting cleverness.

Sometimes it seems your ever-increasing list of things to do can leave you feeling totally undone.

[On writer George Moore:] ... I grew curious about Moore. Yet when at the rehearsal of 'Countess Cathleen' in some dark by-way of London, I was told he was present, I cannot recall any form, only an irritation in the dusty atmosphere.