The mocker is never taken seriously when he is most serious..

He was unheeded, happy, and near to the wild heart of life.

British Beatitudes! ... Beer, beef, business, bibles, bulldogs, battleships, buggery and bishops..

I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world..

Satan, really, is the romantic youth of Jesus re-appearing for a moment..

I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction..

When a man is born...there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight. You talk to me of nationality, language, religion. I shall try to fly by….

His heart danced upon her movements like a cork upon a tide. He heard what her eyes said to him from beneath their cowl and knew that in some dim pas….

What incensed him the most was the blatant jokes of the ones that passed it all off as a jest, pretending to understand everything and in reality not….

I should tell you that honestly, on my honour of a Nearwicked, I always think in a wordworth's of that primed favourite continental poet, Daunty, Gou….

While you have a thing it can be taken from you…..but when you give it, you have given it. no robber can take it from you. It is yours then forever w….

He passes, struck by the stare of truculent Wellington but in the convex mirror grin unstruck the bonham eyes and fatchuck cheekchops of Jollypoldy t….

And the first till last alshemist wrote over every square inch of the only foolscap available, his own body, till by its corrosive sublimation one co….

One great part of every human existence is passed in a state which cannot be rendered sensible by the use of wideawake language, cutanddry grammar an….

Can't bring back time. Like holding water in your hand..

Love loves to love love..

You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman..

And when all was said and done the lies a fellow told about himself couldn't probably hold a proverbial candle to the wholesale whoppers other fellow….

Civilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws..

What kind of liberation would that be to forsake an absurdity which is logical and coherent and to embrace one which is illogical and incoherent?.

Good puzzle would be cross Dublin without passing a pub..