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Sir, that much prudence calls for too much worry; I cannot foresee misfortunes so far away.
Integrity of life is fame's best friend, which nobly, beyond death, shall crown in the end.
What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.
Love lives on hope, and dies when hope is dead; It is a flame which sinks for lack of fuel.
Friendship above all ties does bind the heart; And faith in friendship is the noblest part.
There's nothing so passionate as a vested interest disguised as an intellectual conviction.
Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.
No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have; and I think he's a dirty little beast.
Everybody has got to die, but I have always believed an exception would be made in my case.
Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be, yet such wherein men may thy judgment see.
In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.
Those who would learn must suffer. In our own despair, against our will, wisdom comes to us.
A brave world, sir, full of religion, knavery, and change: we shall shortly see better days.
Why should you love him whom the world hates so? Because he love me more than all the world.
Women have the genius of charity. A man gives but his gold; a woman adds to it her sympathy.
As night the life-inclining stars best shows, So lives obscure the starriest souls disclose.
My death, taking the light from my eyes, gives back to the day the purity which they soiled.
When we prohibit others from being different, we end up forfeiting our own right to Liberty.
Though lust do masque in ne'er so strange disguise she's oft found witty, but is never wise.
It's best make changes little by little, the same as you'd put clothes upon a growing child.
I said, in talking, that I felt more and more the time wasted that was not spent in Ireland.
The man, the writer, the instrument of the creation will die, but his creation does not die.
Heaven often regulates effects by their causes, and pays the wicked what they have deserved.
I don't know how to defend myself: surprised innocence cannot imagine being under suspicion.
A good memory is needed once we have lied. [Fr., Il faut bonne memoire apres qu'on a menti.]
It is an imprudence common to kings to listen to too much advice and to err in their choice.
We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.
Every race, every art has its hypocrisy. The world is fed with a little truth and many lies.
When every blessed thing you have is made of silver, or of gold, you long for simple pewter.
This is what drives a young writer out of his head, this feeling that nothing is being said.
One of the few certainties in life is that persons of certainty should certainly be avoided.
What's poetry? It's not real but maybe it's more than real. It's dreaming while you're awake.
I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself.
Children are very cruel, yes. Of course. Children are extraordinarily cruel little creatures.
Words themselves - the very material of our discourse increasingly take on masks or disguises
Next to coming to a good understanding with a new mistress, I love a quarrel with an old one.
Arnold Bennett was a writer I admired. He was actually taking notes at his father's deathbed.
I felt for my crime a just terror; I looked on my life with hate, and my passion with horror.
The spoken word is man's physician in grief. For this alone has soothing charms for the soul.
Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
The more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities.
Brave men are brave from the very first. [Fr., Les hommes valeureux le sont au premier coup.]
If ardent passions push not men on to lofty enterprise, calm wisdom never will accomplish it.
Utopia's quite another land; In her enterprising movements, She is England--with improvements
On my face extended flat I was walloped with a cat For listening at the key-hole of the door.
It is impossible not to notice that our world is tormented by failure, hate, guilt, and fear.
A beauty masked, like the sun in eclipse, gathers together more gazers than if it shined out.
For a deadly blow let him pay with a deadly blow: it is for him who has done a deed to suffer.
Now I will show myselfTo have more of the serpent than the dove;That is--more knave than fool.
Most women have small waists the world throughout, But their desires are thousand miles about.