If there is any difficulty in what I write, it is because of the material I use. The thought is always simple.
The important thing is not what we write but how we write, and in my opinion the modern writer must be an adventurer above all, willing to take every risk, and be prepared to founder in his effort if need be. In other words we must write dangerously.
What kind of liberation would that be to forsake an absurdity which is logical and coherent and to embrace one which is illogical and incoherent?
Each lost soul will be a hell unto itself, the boundless fire raging in its very vitals.
He comes into the world God knows how, walks on the water, gets out of his grave and goes up off the Hill of Howth. What drivel is this?
Hell is the centre of evils and, as you know, things are more intense at their centres than at their remotest points.
The mocker is never taken seriously when he is most serious.
The artist who could disentangle the subtle soul of the image from its mesh of defining circumstances most exactly and ‘re-embody’ it in artistic circumstances chosen as the most exact for it in its new office, he was the supreme artist.
Phall if you but will, rise you must: and none so soon either shall the pahrce for the nunce come to a setdown secular phoenish.
Never let us do wrong, because our opponents did so. Let us, rather, by doing right, show them what they ought to have done, and establish a rule the dictates of reason and conscience, rather than of the angry passions.
He passes, struck by the stare of truculent Wellington but in the convex mirror grin unstruck the bonham eyes and fatchuck cheekchops of Jollypoldy the rixdix doldy.
You cannot eat your cake and have it.
I don’t want to die. Damn death. Long live life.
A woman loses a charm with every pin she takes out.
First, in the history of words there is much that indicates the history of men, and in comparing the speech of to-day with that ofyears ago, we have a useful illustration of the effect of external influences on the very words of a race.
That ideal reader suffering from an ideal insomnia.
Wipe your glasses with what you know.
I will not say nothing. I will defend my church and my religion when it is insulted and spit on.
The pleasures of love lasts but a fleeting but the pledges of life outlusts a lieftime.
There is only one thing that makes any one athlete better than another, his heart. We all put our underwear on feet first, so we are all human.