Success is a science if you have the conditions, you get the result.

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.

Society exists only as a mental concept in the real world there are only individuals.

Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.

I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.

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.

Success is a science if you have the conditions, you get the result.

If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.

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.