Titles distinguish the mediocre, embarrass the superior, and are disgraced by the inferior.
I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way: by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could.
We sing in a church, why can we not dance there?
I don’t want to talk grammar. I want to talk like a lady.
Orchestras only need to be sworn at, and a German is consequently at an advantage with them, as English profanity, except in America, has not gone beyond a limited technology of perdition.
Where there is no knowledge ignorance calls itself science.
You propound a complicated arithmetical problem: say cubing a number containing four digits. Give me a slate and half an hour’s time, and I can produce a wrong answer.
Imagination is the beginning of creation.
The nation’s morals are like its teeth: the more decayed they are the more it hurts to touch them.
The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.
You accepted Allah or you had your throat cut by someone who did accept him, and who went to Paradise for having sent you to Hell.
Trade unionism is not socialism. It is the capitalism of the proletariat.
Put an Irishman on the spit and you can always get another Irishman to turn him.
People expect too much of one year and too little of ten.
The Indian way of life provides the vision of the natural, real way of life. We veil ourselves with unnatural masks. On the face of India are the tender expressions which carry the mark of the Creators hand.
There are only two classes in good society in England: the equestrian classes and the neurotic classes.
Being hurt by someone you truly care about leaves a hole in you heart that only love can fill.
How can what an Englishman believes be hearsay? It is a contradiction in terms.
Here there is no hope, and consequently no duty, no work, nothing to be gained by praying, nothing to be lost by doing what you like. Hell, in short, is a place where you have nothing to do but amuse yourself.
Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree.