You cannot put a rope around the neck of an idea: you can not put an idea up against a barracks-square wall and riddle it with bullets: you cannot co….

It's my rule never to lose me temper till it would be detrimental to keep it..

That's the Irish all over -- they treat a joke as a serious thing and a serious thing as a joke..

All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed..