top of page
.png){kind=small}
Quotes by Irish Authors
"A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation."
"Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else."
"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."
"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."
"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."
"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."
"Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win."
"Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination."
"It's been crazy trying to tour with a baby. But it's actually working out okay."
"I'm called away by particular business - but I leave my character behind me."
"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."
"To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession."
"Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get."
"There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy."
"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."
"There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination."
"Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow."
"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."
"It is not the size of the dog in the fight that counts, but the size of the fight in the dog."
"There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written."
"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."
"Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship."
"I call on everyone of goodwill both in Ireland and abroad to join now in ensuring that the beginning of peace becomes a reality, before this year is out. Let us together open a new era in our history."
bottom of page