 Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul. |
| Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us. |
| It is always the unreadable that occurs. |
| If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized. |
| These days man knows the price of everything, but the value of nothing. |
| Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away. |
| The truth is rarely pure and never simple. |
| Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow. |
| Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable. |
| Ambition is the last refuge of the failure. |
| The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable. |
| Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. |
| There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love. |
| It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly. |
| Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life. |
| A poet can survive everything but a misprint. |
| A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world. |
| Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes. |
| An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all. |
| It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection. |
