Oscar Wilde

When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.

The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.

Free and civilized societies do not hold prisoners incommunicado.

They said I couldn't play anything but an English boy. I knew I could. So I went to New York.

But I will say that living in Ireland has changed the cadence and fullness of speech, since the Irish love words and use as many of them in a sentence as possible.