The man who cannot believe his senses, and the man who cannot believe anything else, are both insane, but their insanity is proved not by any error in their argument, but by the manifest mistake of th...
Good taste, the last and vilest of human superstitions, has succeeded in silencing us where all the rest has failed.
Somehow one must love the world without being worldly.
Without the family, we are helpless before the State.
The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes.
The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad, For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad.
Private lives are more important than public reputations.
He is a man, I think, he said, who cares for nothing but a joke. He is a dangerous man.Lambert laughed in the act of lifting some macaroni to his mouth.Dangerous! he said. You don't know little Quin,...
A strange fanaticism fills our time: the fanatical hatred of morality, especially of Christian morality.
How much larger your life would be if your self could become smaller in it.
Then the small man suddenly ran after them and said:I want to get my haircut. I say, do you know a little shop anywhere where they cut hair properly? I keep on having my hair cut, but it keeps on grow...
The great error consists in supposing that poetry is an unnatural form of language. We should all like to speak poetry at the moment when we truly live, and if we do not speak it, it is because we hav...
No man's really any good till he knows how bad he is, or might be; till he's realised exactly how much right he has to all this snobbery, and sneering, and talking about 'criminals,' as if they were a...
No man knows he is young while he is young.
Man is not merely an evolution but rather a revolution.
Like any man, he was coward enough to fear great force; but he was not quite coward enough to admire it.
I have known some people of very modern views driven by their distress to the use of theological terms to which they attached no doctrinal significance, merely because a drawer was jammed tight and th...
The modern world is not evil; in some ways the modern world is far too good. It is full of wild and wasted virtues. When a religious scheme is shattered...it is not merely the vices that are let loose...
A few people have ventured to imitate Shakespeare's tragedy. But no audacious spirit has dreamed or dared to imitate Shakespeare's comedy. No one has made any real attempt to recover the loves and the...
For children are innocent and love justice, while most of us are wicked and naturally prefer mercy.