Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.

If one could only teach the English how to talk and the Irish how to listen, society would be quite civilized.

Industry is the root of all ugliness.

Lying, a telling of beautiful untrue things, this is the proper aim of art.

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did he would cease to be an artist.

The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young.

More women grow old nowadays through the faithfulness of their admirers than through anything else.

Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.

The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on; it is never of any use to oneself.

When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.