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Quotes by Irish Authors
"The note of the perfect personality is not rebellion, but peace."
"I don't think the British carry a historical consciousness either."
"I have much to say why my reputation should be rescued from the load of false accusation and calumny which has been heaped upon it."
"Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed."
"Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes."
"Gulliver describes a royal personage inspiring awe among the tiny Lilliputians because he was taller than his brethren by the breadth of a human fingernail."
"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."
"The dependence of one people upon another, even for the benefits of legislation, is the deepest source of national weakness."
"He is cured by faith who is sick of fate."
"For example, it's only about 20 years ago the people in that community would have got telephone lines, and it would be only about in the 1950s that electricity came to that part of the world. Television wouldn't have come till 1970."
"Try again. Fail again. Fail better."
"I enjoyed seven years at Wimbledon and there were high and low points."
"Music and language are a vital element. We, as actors and directors, offer it to people who want to experience it. Sometimes the actual meaning is less important than the words themselves."
"No man is so old as to believe he cannot live one more year."
"Any object, intensely regarded, may be a gate of access to the incorruptible eon of the gods."
"I'm actually about as famous as a fourth division footballer from the 70s."
"The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there."
"You have killed my love. You used to stir my imagination. Now you don't even stir my curiosity. You simply produce no effect. I loved you because you were marvelous, because you had genius and intellect, because you realized the dreams of great poets and gave shape and substance to the shadows of art. You have thrown it all away. You are shallow and stupid."
"Marriage is a matter for common sense.""But women who have common sense are so curiously plain, father, aren't they? Of course I only speak from heresay?""No woman, plain or pretty, has any common sense at all, sir. Common sense is the privilege of our sex."
"Yeah, Hitman I suppose is most of the time a lighter read than Preacher; it was always going to be."
"Sinn Fein has the potential and capacity to become the vehicle for the attainment of republican objectives."
"Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious."
"Nothing can happen nowhere. The locale of the happening always colours the happening, and often, to a degree, shapes it."
"The lies we tell other people are nothing to the lies we tell ourselves."
"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."
"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!"
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