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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."
"There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy."
"You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips."
"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."
"It's been crazy trying to tour with a baby. But it's actually working out okay."
"The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts."
"There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses."
"My mother was the prettiest woman in the town. He was a bit older than her. They made me. And he split."
"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."
"There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination."
"I'm called away by particular business - but I leave my character behind me."
"Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win."
"There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written."
"It is not the size of the dog in the fight that counts, but the size of the fight in the dog."
"I think paranormal experiences are very personal, again, if they are that. Yes, sometimes I've felt that some things I would personally believe enough for me to take action on it... like, you know, I felt something happen in a hotel once that made me never stay there again."
"To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession."
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