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Quotes by Irish Authors
"So much had been surrendered! And to such little purpose! There had been mad wilful rejections, monstrous forms of self-torture and self-denial, whose origin was fear and whose result was a degradation infinitely more terrible than that fancied degradation from which, in their ignorance, they had sought to escape."
"But there are other things than dissipation that thicken the features. Tears, for example."
"If somebody on this team actually gets to first base, I'll stand there naked."
"There were sins whose fascination was more in the memory than in the doing of them, strange triumphs that gratified the pride more than the passions, and gave to the intellect a quickened sense of joy, greater than any joy they brought, or could ever bring, to the senses."
"If you want to be a doormat you have to lay yourself down first."
"In Ireland, it's been like U2 and The Cranberries, which is rock, but you know they're Irish."
"The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork."
"With slouch and swing around the ringWe trod the Fools' Parade!We did not care: we knew we wereThe Devils' Own Brigade:And shaven head and feet of leadMake a merry masquerade."
"I mean, y'know, platinum is different in every country, which can be confusing."
"For if there is anything to one's praise, it is foolish vanity to be gratified at it, and if it is abuse - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned good-natured friend or another!"
"A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out."
"My mouth is full of decayed teeth and my soul of decayed ambitions."
"Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis."
"It's my rule never to lose me temper till it would be detrimental to keep it."
"In fact, I would defend to the death their right to express a different point of view."
"I loved being behind the scenes and finding out how they make movies."
"Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste."
"From the moment this war began, there was, for this state, only one policy possible, neutrality."
"Like everybody at that age, I read an awful lot of pulp fiction. But at the same time, I also read quite a bit of history and read that as much for pleasure as part of a curriculum."
"Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals."
"The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding. The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married. One should always be in love - that's the reason one should never marry."
"Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable."
"Irish Americans are no more Irish than Black Americans are Africans."
"The heart that has truly loved never forgets But as truly loves on to the close."
"I don't think my wife likes me very much, when I had a heart attack she wrote for an ambulance."
"For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity."
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