Irish poet and playwright
A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.
When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.
I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.
Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.
Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.
The function of the artist is to invent, not to chronicle.
I would have a workshop attached to every school, and one hour a day given up to the teaching of simple decorative arts. It would be a golden hour to the children.
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.