Quotes by Irish Authors - Page 16

Cursed luck! —said he, biting his lip as he shut the door, —for man to be master of one of the finest chains of reasoning in nature, —and have a wife at the same time with such a head-piece, that he cannot hang up a single inference within side of it, to save his soul from destruction.

Indeed, as a rule, everybody turns out to be somebody else.

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

I could not resist the temptation of mystifying him a bit, I suppose it is some taste of the original apple that remains still in our mouths.

sometimes we have absolutely no idea where we are, we need the smallest clue to show us where to begin.

But we have reason to think that the annihilation of work is no less a physical impossibility than its creation, that is, than perpetual motion.

What nonsense people talk about happy marriages!" exclaimed Lord Henry. " A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.