Sleachta is Fearr George Bernard Shaw Le Bheith Rathúil

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.

Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.

Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.

Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.

When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them.

Life isn't about finding yourself. It's about creating yourself.

I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul. No, give me a ruined complexion and a lost figure and sixteen chins on a farmyard of Crow's feet and an obvious wig. Then you shall see me coming out strong.

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.

Virtue is insufficient temptation.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.

Syllables govern the world.

No diet will remove all the fat from your body because the brain is entirely fat. Without a brain, you might look good, but all you could do is run for public office.

A man who has no office to go, to I don't care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception.

A book is like a child: it is easier to bring it into the world than to control it when it is launched there.

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.