Irish poet and playwright
The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.
Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.
What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.
In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.
The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.
I am not young enough to know everything.
The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.
There is no sin except stupidity.