Irish poet and playwright
Biography lends to death a new terror.
Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.
If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
Romantic art deals with the exception and with the individual. Good people, belonging as they do to the normal, and so, commonplace type, are artistically uninteresting.
I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.
True friends stab you in the front.
An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.