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Quotes by Irish Authors
"Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy."
"I just think that things should be allowed to run their course, and not turned into a Disney ride."
"Ignore the people who say that the sales industry needs to become professionalised: it already has."
"So many plays with magic in them that would be a terrific invitation to an imaginative animation team."
"Let my country die for me."
"Success does not judge one man for being worthy above another. Success doesn't choose you because of your family name or existing wealth. Success is taken by the man, who has made himself ready for its arrival. And although I am not there yet, I have come to this place to become such a man."
"You listen like an amateur and fool yourself into believing it is enough when it is not."
"Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few."
"'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion."
"Think upon the numbers I have been sharing with you. Of your competitors, five out of ten will do little more than take their customer's money immorally. A further three out of ten will leave them dissatisfied."
"This next nugget of salesmanship cannot be perfected in a single afternoon. However, once you have it mastered, your competition will continuously believe you possess some mystical customer attracting formula."
"I will design my reputation and my resolve shall be absolute. I shall not give in when I know I can help."
"If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales."
"Having started out in theatre, I feel an impulse to do it as much as I can."
"I am accusing him of stealing my best material, he was a very funny man."
"The ability to close sales effectively has never been confined to the last few moments of the conversation."
"I don't necessarily write everything as automatically assuming it will be collected, there's nothing that says Hitman will be collected, though it might be."
"There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake."
"The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there."
"Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear.Just as vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people.And falsehoods the truths of other people.Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance."
"I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's immortality."
"We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is."
"Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there."
"Get up in the morning on a mission to save prospective clients from the shabby, ill-fitting, overpriced and worthless alternatives that those charlatans - who are your competition - are trying to get away with flogging them."
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