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Quotes by Irish Authors
"Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion."
"I think technique can be taught but I think the only way to learn to write is to read, and I see writing and reading as completely related. One almost couldn't exist without the other."
"I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me."
"I mean I grew up in Ireland, so one would have to be consciously blinkered not to have reflected on the issue of political violence because that was the story since I was 19 years old or 20."
"In terms of language, yeah we get bleeped and blurred and things, but in terms of content, I would probably say we're getting away with more here than we could get away with in Britain. And that surprised us so much!"
"I'm sure I'm very difficult to live with because of my make-up and personality."
"Assassination is the extreme form of censorship."
"I have begun to think of life as a series of ripples widening out from an original center."
"A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle."
"I mean, the question actors most often get asked is how they can bear saying the same things over and over again, night after night, but God knows the answer to that is, don't we all anyway; might as well get paid for it."
"Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent."
"It's obvious that if you're going to play a character you need to amass information about that person and about their environment or their era that they're in and use as little or as much as necessary."
"The present aristocracy of western culture, at the moment when it most clearly dominates the world, is being imitated rapidly and successfully in every eastern country."
"Writing is a kind of performing art, and I can't sit down to write unless I'm dressed. I don't mean dressed in a suit, but dressed well and comfortably and I have to be shaved and bathed."
"No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly."
"Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same."
"My valor is certainly going, it is sneaking off! I feel it oozing out as it were, at the palms of my hands!"
"I must turn myself around so that I am viewing life as my prospects see it. Only then can I start addressing their issues, help to prevent their pain, and advise on solutions to their problems."
"It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody."
"The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor, he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them."
"You " help - people. You are an expert in your field, who genuinely helps other human beings. Take pride in that, stop hawking your wares, and get a bit of respect for your profession, and earn some from your prospects."
"Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is."
"Taking something from one man and making it worse is plagiarism."
"A house cannot be made habitable in a day; and, after all, how few days go to make up a century."
"I don't think they'd ever make a movie about Chuck Baker but I'd love to play Chuck Baker."
"There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it."
"I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality."
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