In a good play every speech should be as fully flavored as a nut or apple..

When I was writing The Shadow of the Glen I got more aid than any learning could have given me from a chink in the floor of the old Wicklow house whe….

They're cheering a young lad, the champion playboy of the Western World..

A low line of shore was visible at first on the right between the movement of the waves and fog, but when we came further it was lost sight of, and n….

I knew the stars, the flowers, and the birds, The gray and wintry sides of many glens, And did but half remember human words, In converse with the mo….

Words, particularly in a play, should have the texture of a crisp, autumn apple..

It gave me a moment of exquisite satisfaction to find myself moving away from civilisation in this rude canvas canoe of a model that has served primi….

As a man has no right to kill one of his children if it is diseased or insane, so a man who has made the gradual and conscious expression of his pers….

The general knowledge of time on the island depends, curiously enough, on the direction of the wind..

A man who is not afraid of the sea will soon be drowned, for he will be going out on a day when he shouldn't..

A week of sweeping fogs has passed over and given me a strange sense of exile and desolation. I walk round the island nearly every day, yet I can see….

At first I threw my weight upon my heels, as one does naturally in a boot, and was a good deal bruised, but after a few hours I learned the natural w….

Drink a health to the wonders of the western world, the pirates, preachers, poteen-makers, with the jobbing jockies; parching peelers, and the juries….

In this cry of pain the inner consciousness of the people seems to lay itself bare for an instant, and to reveal the mood of beings who feel their is….

No man at all can be living forever and we must be satisfied..

Before verse can be human again it must learn to be brutal..

There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting..

What is the price of a thousand horses against a son where there is one son only?.

In the middle classes the gifted son of a family is always the poorest -- usually a writer or artist with no sense for speculation -- and in a family….

It is the timber of poetry that wears most surely, and there is no timber that has not strong roots among the clay and worms..

The drama, like the symphony, does not teach or prove anything..