Irish poet and playwright
Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.
There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.
One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.
One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
Let us have no machine-made ornament at all; it is all bad and worthless and ugly.
Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
It is always the unreadable that occurs.
There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.