"To be honest I live among the English and have always found them to be very honest in their business dealings. They are noble, hard-working and anxious to do the right thing. But joy eludes them, they lack the joy that the Irish have."

"A relationship is sent by God and accident."

"I think America becomes more disgruntled by going to the movies and having an endlessly good time at them."

"A lot of Irish people perform. They perform in drawing rooms. They sing songs and they play piano."

"I am not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens."

"A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age he dies of being a man."

"Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth."

"The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world."