Irish poet and playwright
There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.
If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.
How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.
There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.
The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.