Irish poet and playwright
Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.
No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
Who, being loved, is poor?
As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.
I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.
I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.