There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life’s sores the better.
Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.
Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.
If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.
I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.
Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.