What's the use of being Irish if you can't be thick?

Death was like an unpleasant neighbor. You didn’t talk about him for fear he might hear you and decide to pay a visit.

Until recently, 'the news' has meant to different things - events that are newsworthy, and events covered by the press.

Telling my children was the toughest part. But that's when you get strong, because you have to be strong for other people.

I'm glad I was never an heiress.

God has never disappointed me.

The porpoises said hello to Molly. She told them all her teeth were green.

I wish there were some photographic process by which one's mind could be struck off and transferred to that of the friend we wish to know it, without the medium of this confounded letter-writing!

I don't believe a picture is worth a thousand words, unless they're very confusing words.

Give the enemy not only a road for flight, but also a means of defending it.