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Dramatist and memoirist · Irish · 1880–1964
Irish dramatist and memoirist (1880–1964)
“Money does not make you happy but it quiets the nerves.”
“When it was dark, you always carried the sun in your hand for me.”
“All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.”
“It's my rule never to lose my temper until it would be detrimental to keep it.”
“I have found life an enjoyable, enchanting, active, and sometime terrifying experience, and I've enjoyed it completely. A lament in one ear, maybe, but always a song in the other.”
“Wealth often takes away chances from men as well as poverty. There is none to tell the rich to go on striving, for a rich man makes the law that hallows and hollows his own life.”
“You cannot put a rope around the neck of an idea: you cannot put an idea up against a barrack-square wall and riddle it with bullets: you cannot confine it in the strongest prison cell that your sl...”
“There's no reason to bring religion into it. I think we ought to have as great a regard for religion as we can so as to keep it out of as many things as possible.”
“Laughter is wine for the soul - laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness - the hilarious declaration made by man that life is worth living.”