Irish poet and playwright
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
London is too full of fogs and serious people. Whether the fogs produce the serious people, or whether the serious people produce the fogs, I don't know.
Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.
I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
Those whom the gods love grow young.
If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.
The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.