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Quotes by Irish Authors
"A jury of my countrymen, it is true, have found me guilty of the crime of which I stood indicted. For this I entertain not the slightest feeling of resentment towards them."
"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."
"The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts."
"Difficulties are just things to overcome, after all."
"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."
"What Ireland needs now above all else is peace."
"A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally."
"Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity."
"I like to think I'm a listener, and I'm fascinated by observing people - I suppose you just lock that in."
"There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses."
"That's healthy and good for us that there are people who are prepared to question what we are doing."
"You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips."
"Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious."
"Science never solves a problem without creating ten more."
"Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes."
"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."
"Control of vibrato helps your musical expression."
"They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more."
"I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it."
"When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him."
"America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between."
"Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self."
"It's really very simple, Governor. When people are hungry they die. So spare me your politics and tell me what you need and how you're going to get it to these people."
"Half the lies our opponents tell about us are untrue."
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