Irish poet and playwright
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Women are made to be loved, not understood.
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.
In judging of a beautiful statue, the aesthetic faculty is absolutely and completely gratified by the splendid curves of those marble lips that are dumb to our complaint, the noble modelling of those limbs that are powerless to help us.
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.
I have a dining room done in different shades of white, with white cushions embroidered in yellow silk: the effect is absolutely delightful and the room beautiful.
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.