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Quotes by Irish Authors
"The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts."
"My wife can see always how a part affects me personally because she has to live with it."
"Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes."
"Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious."
"There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses."
"A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world."
"When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him."
"Half the lies our opponents tell about us are untrue."
"America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between."
"Science never solves a problem without creating ten more."
"If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas."
"Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own."
"Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you."
"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it."
"Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves."
"They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more."
"I think there's a great difference in consciousness in that same way in that when we're young we read books for the story, for the excitement of the story - and there comes a time when you realise that all stories are more or less the same story."
"Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it."
"Control of vibrato helps your musical expression."
"You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips."
"To gain what is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else."
"Films were never in my budget. Didn't occur to me till much later. I hoped for a long, good life, which I've had and I'm having as an actor. I didn't expect the rest."
"There is a destiny that shapes our ends rough, hew them as we will."
"We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see."
"I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day."
"The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance."
"In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever."
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