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Quotes by Irish Authors
"Even men of the noblest possible moral character are extremely susceptible to the influence of the physical charms of others. Modern, no less then Ancient History, supplies us with many most painful examples of what I refer to. If it were not so, indeed, History would be quite unreadable."
"Be yourself, everyone else is already taken."
"Personality is born out of pain. It is the fire shut up in the flint."
"Assassination is the extreme form of censorship."
"Preacher is a book that somehow allows me time by its settling on it's characters, that sort of modern gothic western feel. You're not likely to see the boat veering too far from that."
"Religion which lays so many restraints upon us, is a troublesome companion to those who will lay no restraints upon themselves."
"I like the level of fame that I have. You get nice tables in restaurants sometimes, but fame isn't something that I find comfortable."
"The American struggle for the vote was much more difficult than the English for the simple reason that it was much more easy."
"For ten years Caesar ruled with an iron hand. Then with a wooden foot, and finally with a piece of string."
"But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face. The moment one sits down to think, one becomes all nose, or all forehead, or something horrid. Look at the successful men in any of the learned professions. How perfectly hideous they are! Except, of course, in the Church. But then in the Church they don't think."
"A bumper of good liquor will end a contest quicker than justice, judge, or vicar."
"Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want."
"I lay down across her with my face in her breasts and my hand on her. We lay there without moving. But under us all moved, and moved us, gently, up and down, and from side to side.(Pause. Krapp's lips move. No sound.)Past midnight. Never knew such silence. The earth might be uninhabited."
"I feel like the writer observing the grief, but it is difficult to be detached from it."
"Any relations in a social order will endure, if there is infused into them some of that spirit of human sympathy which qualifies life for immortality."
"We're all somebody's prospect, we're all somebody's customer."
"The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years."
"All government - indeed every human benefit and enjoyment every virtue and every prudent act - is founded on compromise and barter."
"Shut up, Julius! I mean, quiet a moment, Commander."
"The first springs of great events like those of great rivers are often mean and little."
"The heart of an Irishman is nothing but his imagination."
"My father was a civil servant, fairly sort of middle ranking, low to middle ranking. He worked almost entirely in what was then called Administrative Labour, dealing with employment and unemployment issues."
"I am accusing him of stealing my best material, he was a very funny man."
"I have the body of an eighteen year old. I keep it in the fridge."
"Judges... are picked out from the most dextrous lawyers, who are grown old or lazy, and having been biased all their lives against truth or equity, are under such a fatal necessity of favoring fraud, perjury and oppression, that I have known several of them to refuse a large bribe from the side where justice lay, rather than injure the faculty by doing any thing unbecoming their nature in office."
"Interpretations of interpretations interpreted."
"Man is many things, but he is not rational."
"The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots."
"Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss."
"Our hearts were drunk with a beauty Our eyes could never see."
"I took two years away from making films to write a novel."
"I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution."
"That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud, and the world overhears them."
"Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked."
"The recognition of the art that informs all pure science need not mean the abandonment for it of all present art, rather it will mean the completion of the transformation of art that has already begun."
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