I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit. |
I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything. |
I sometimes think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability |
I sometimes think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability |
I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy. |
I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead. |
I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our laughter and grow sad. I want a breath of our passion to stir their dust into consciosness, to wake their ashes in pain. |
I was disappointed in Niagara - most people must be disappointed in Niagara. Every American bride is taken there, and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life. |
I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again. |
I'm sure I don't know half the people who come to my house. Indeed, from all I hear, I shouldn't like to. |
If a man needs an elaborate tombstone in order to remain in the memory of his country, it is clear that his living at all was an act of absolute superfluity. |
If England treats her criminals the way she has treated me, she doesn't deserve to have any |
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all. |
If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized. |
If one hears bad music it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation |