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Quotes by Irish Authors
"A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation."
"Dublin university contains the cream of Ireland: Rich and thick."
"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."
"A man in my situation, my lords, has not only to encounter the difficulties of fortune. and the force of power over minds which it has corrupted or subjugated. but the difficulties of established prejudice: the man dies, but his memory lives."
"Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination."
"You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips."
"There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy."
"Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else."
"I'm called away by particular business - but I leave my character behind me."
"It's been crazy trying to tour with a baby. But it's actually working out okay."
"There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination."
"No matter how correct a mathematical theorem may appear to be, one ought never to be satisfied that there was not something imperfect about it until it also gives the impression of being beautiful."
"The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts."
"When I start to write, words have become physical presence. It was to see if I could bring that private world to life that found its first expression through reading. I really dislike the romantic notion of the artist."
"My mother was the prettiest woman in the town. He was a bit older than her. They made me. And he split."
"Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get."
"What a silly thing love is!' said the student as he walked away. 'It is not half as useful as logic, for it does not prove anything, and it is always telling one of things that are not going to happen, and making one believe things that are not true. In fact, it is quite unpractical, and, as in this age to be practical is everything, I shall go back to philosophy and study metaphysics.' So he returned to his room and pulled out a great dusty book, and began to read."
"It is only about things that do not interest one, that one can give a really unbiassed opinion; and this is no doubt the reason why an unbiased opinion is always valueless."
"Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win."
"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."
"If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas."
"There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written."
"A jury of my countrymen, it is true, have found me guilty of the crime of which I stood indicted. For this I entertain not the slightest feeling of resentment towards them."
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