Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist
Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.
There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?
Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.