Occupation: Novelist Birth: February 2, 1882 Death: January 13, 1941
Our civilization, bequeathed to us by fierce adventurers, eaters of meat and hunters, is so full of hurry and combat, so busy about many things which….
White wine is like electricity. Red wine looks and tastes like a liquified beefsteak..
Does nobody understand?.
I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day..
The sacred pint alone can unbind the tongue..
When the Irishman is found outside of Ireland in another environment, he very often becomes a respected man. The economic and intellectual conditions….
Have read little and understood less..
Theologians consider that it was the sin of pride, the sinful thought conceived in an instant: non serviam: I will not serve. That instant was his [L….
Each lost soul will be a hell unto itself, the boundless fire raging in its very vitals..
Ineluctable modality of the visible; at least that if no more, thought through my eyes. Signatures of all things I am here to read..
Sometimes he caught himself listening to the sound of his own voice. He thought that in her eyes he would ascent to an angelical stature; and, as he ….
Under cover of her silence he pressed her arm closely to his side; and, as they stood at the hotel door, he felt that they had escaped from their liv….
White pudding and eggs and sausages and cups of tea! How simple and beautiful was life after all!.
I have the words already. What I am seeking is the perfect order of words in the sentence. You can see for yourself how many different ways they migh….
The movements which work revolutions in the world are born out of the dreams and visions in a peasant's heart on the hillside..
The men that is now is only all palaver and what they can get out of you..
A Classical style... is the syllogism of art, the only legitimate process from one world to another. Classicism is not the manner of any fixed age or….
Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a ….
I shall write a book some day about the appropriateness of names. Geoffrey Chaucer has a ribald ring, as is proper and correct, and Alexander Pope wa….
I am quite content to go down to posterity as a scissors and paste man for that seems to me a harsh but not unjust description.
Old father, old artificer, stand me now and ever in good stead..