Irish poet and playwright
A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it.
Charity creates a multitude of sins.
I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.
By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
In married life three is company and two none.
Literature must rest always on a principle, and temporal considerations are no principle at all. For, to the poet, all times and places are one; the stuff he deals with is eternal and eternally the same: no theme is inept, no past or present preferable.
Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.