No man is rich enough to buy back his past.
The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply washing one’s clean linen in public.
A woman will flirt with anybody in the world as long as other people are looking on.
My desire to live is as intense as ever, and though my heart is broken, hearts are made to be broken: that is why God sends sorrow into the world.
I never came across anyone in whom the moral sense was dominant who was not heartless, cruel, vindictive, log-stupid, and entirely lacking in the smallest sense of humanity. Moral people, as they are termed, are simple beasts.
If a man treats life artistically, his brain is his heart.
We Irish will never achieve anything; but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks.
It seems to me that we all look at Nature too much, and live with her too little.
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.
In love, it is better to know and be disappointed, than to not know and always wonder.
We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful.
I want to be good. I can’t bear the idea of my soul being hideous.
Woman begins by resisting a man’s advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.
Good intentions are invariably ungrammatical.
If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.