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History taught us is that people never know learn the lessons of history.
It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants and the other is getting it.
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers
And, after all, what is a fashion? From the artistic point of view, it is usually a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.Literary and Other Notes I, Woman’s World （November 1887）
My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or other of us has to go.
We Irish are too poetical to be poets; we are a nation of brilliant failures, but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks.