Anglo irish author Quotes

“Nothing should be out of the reach of hope. Life is a hope.”

“I don't play accurately--any one can play accurately--but I play with wonderful expression. As far as the piano is concerned, sentiment is my forte. I keep science for Life.”

“You might see nothing in him. I see everything in him.”

“Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways.”

“Be yourself; everyone else is taken.”

“In war," answered the weaver, "the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich make slaves of the poor. We must work to live, and they give us such mean wages that we die. We toil for them all day long, and they heap up gold in their coffers, and our children fade away before their time, and the faces of those we love become hard and evil. We tread out the grapes, another drinks the wine. We sow the corn, and our own board is empty. We have chains, though no eye beholds them; and are slaves, though men call us free.”

“Writing bores me so.”

“But what is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means? Anybody can say charming things and try to please and to flatter, but a true friend always says unpleasant things, and does not mind giving pain. Indeed, if he is a really true friend he prefers it, for he knows that then he is doing good.”

“Concordantly, while your first question may be the most pertinent, you may or may not realize it is also the most irrelevant.”

“I asked the question for the best reason possible, for the only reason, indeed, that excuses anyone for asking any question - simple curiosity.”

“The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing at all.”

“I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist.”

“Create yourself. Be yourself your poem.”

“A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.”

“Freedom, individualism and being yourself so long as you don't hurt another's physical person or property: The true artist is a man who believes absolutely in himself, because he is absolutely himself.”

“The world seemed to me fine because you were in it, and goodness more real because you lived.”

“If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.”

“Always be a little unexpected.”

“I am very glad I have travelled. Travel improves the mind wonderfully, and does away with all one's prejudices.”

“Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.”

“We are specially designed to appeal to the sense of humour.”

“To give and not expect return, that is what lies at the heart of love.”

“She lives the poetry she cannot write.”

“Private information is practically the source of every large modern fortune.”

“I am afraid that we are beginning to be over-educated; at least everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching -that is really what our enthusiasm for education has come to.”