An Anglo-Irish playwright, novelist, poet, short story writer and Freemason.. Irish writer playwright and poet
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Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it. To the great poet, there is only one method of music -- his own. To the great painter, there is only one manner of painting -- that which he himself employs. The aesthetic critic, and the aesthetic critic alone, can appreciate all forms and all modes. It is to him that Art makes her appeal. Go to Quote / Comment
A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally. Go to Quote / Comment
Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on. The loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plenitude. Go to Quote / Comment
On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners. Go to Quote / Comment
It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone. Go to Quote / Comment