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Quotes by Irish Authors
"I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality."
"The Nazi movement is in many respects one which has my warmest sympathy."
"So overjoyed were they at their deliverance that they laughed aloud, and the Earth seemed to them like a flower of silver, and the Moon like a flower of gold."
"When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any."
"Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over."
"Bad people are, from the point of view of art, fascinating studies. They represent colour, variety and strangeness. Good people exasperate one's reason; bad people stir one's imagination."
"Most people live for love and admiration. But it is by love and admiration that one should live. If any love is shown us we should recognize that we are quite unworthy of it. Nobody is worthy to be loved... or if that phrase is a bitter one to bear, let us say that everyone is worthy of love, except him who thinks he is. Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling.."
"Mary Farquhar, who always flirts with her own husband across the dinner-table. That is not very pleasant. Indeed, it is not even decent . . . and that sort of thing is enormously on the increase. The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply washing one's clean linen in public..."
"It never felt real to me. I never felt I had complete ownership over Bond. Because you'd have these stupid one-liners - which I loathed - and I always felt phony doing them."
"Waking up with a bad head in the morning is difficult sometimes."
"A true gentlemen is one who is never unintentionally rude."
"I think everybody had difficulties with that dynamic, turning the family into a band and being constantly together. So everybody, as individuals. had things to sort out."
"I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them."
"Being a songwriter, singer, and a great part of a unit is more important than being Joe Guitar Hero."
"I mean, y'know, platinum is different in every country, which can be confusing."
"No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious."
"Oh yes, technique has definitely advanced. But you never advance without losing something en passant, and you lose it because you're paying so much attention to the new thing."
"The prosperity of a nation requires the protection of a senate. Hereafter a national senate may require the protection of a national army."
"My dear doctor, I am surprised to hear you say that I am coughing very badly, as I have been practising all night."
"The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense."
"A week of sweeping fogs has passed over and given me a strange sense of exile and desolation. I walk round the island nearly every day, yet I can see nothing anywhere but a mass of wet rock, a strip of surf, and then a tumult of waves."
"Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week."
"The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time."
"The country is in an extraordinary ferment."
"The Republican movement have not behaved properly over the years. They have not themselves implemented the Agreement. If they had implemented the Agreement then they would have disarmed completely in May 2000, that is what they undertook to do, that is what they failed to do."
"Remember that when you meet your antagonist, to do everything in a mild agreeable manner. Let your courage be keen, but, at the same time, as polished as your sword."
"Only disaster can follow divided counsels and opposing wills."
"I spent many years laughing at Harry Secombe's singing until somebody told me that it wasn't a joke."
"Qualifying for the second stage would be a successful World Cup for us. I think we can do it."
"The American struggle for the vote was much more difficult than the English for the simple reason that it was much more easy."
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