Irish poet and playwright
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.
In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
When good Americans die they go to Paris.
When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.
Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.
A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.
Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.