“Every cripple has his own way of walking. ”

“Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves.”

“It's a queer world, God knows, but the best we have to be going on with.”

“I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn't make it worse.”

“When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.”

“It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody.”

“They took away our land, our language, and our religion; but they could never harness our tongues...”