top of page
.png){kind=small}
Quotes by Irish Authors
"To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession."
"I think paranormal experiences are very personal, again, if they are that. Yes, sometimes I've felt that some things I would personally believe enough for me to take action on it... like, you know, I felt something happen in a hotel once that made me never stay there again."
"There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses."
"I call on everyone of goodwill both in Ireland and abroad to join now in ensuring that the beginning of peace becomes a reality, before this year is out. Let us together open a new era in our history."
"Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow."
"It is not the size of the dog in the fight that counts, but the size of the fight in the dog."
"Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants."
"My wife can see always how a part affects me personally because she has to live with it."
"Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity."
"What Ireland needs now above all else is peace."
"The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork."
"Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired, women, because they are curious: both are disappointed."
"Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious."
"Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship."
"I like to think I'm a listener, and I'm fascinated by observing people - I suppose you just lock that in."
"A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally."
"Difficulties are just things to overcome, after all."
"Science never solves a problem without creating ten more."
"That's healthy and good for us that there are people who are prepared to question what we are doing."
"Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes."
"There is a destiny that shapes our ends rough, hew them as we will."
"Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you."
"Control of vibrato helps your musical expression."
"I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day."
"Still, he figured, sometimes you've got to do what you've got to do, and then sometimes you've just got to run like hell after it's done."
"They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more."
bottom of page