The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place
Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. His influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from the 1880s to his death and beyond.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn
Write your Sad times in Sand, Write your Good times in Stone
People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing
I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it
I closed my mouth and spoke to you in a hundred silent ways
I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting
I lay it down as a fact that if all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world
In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies
If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it
A human being is part of a whole called by us the universe.
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