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Quotes by Irish Authors
"Morality does not help me. I am a born antinomian. I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws. But while I see that there is nothing wrong in what one does, I see that there is something wrong in what one becomes. It is well to have learned that."
"The Butcher Boy is a very great novel indeed and a very important Irish novel. The ambiguity of that is, he's writing a book about an appalling situation and he does it in a hilarious way."
"To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten."
"For in me there have always been two fools, among others, one asking nothing better than to stay where he is and the other imagining that life might be slightly less horrible a little further on. So that I was never disappointed, so to speak, whatever I did, in this domain. And these inseparable fools I indulged turn about, that they might understand their foolishness."
"With a group of bankers I always had the feeling that success was measured by the extent one gave nothing away."
"It gave me a moment of exquisite satisfaction to find myself moving away from civilisation in this rude canvas canoe of a model that has served primitive races since men first went to sea."
"I swear, talking to you is like talking to a really good-looking and mildly stupid brick wall."
"There are certain common privileges of a writer, the benefit whereof Ihope there will be no reason to doubt; particularly, that where I am notunderstood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profoundis couched underneath; and again, that whatever word or sentenceis printed in a different character shall be judged to contain somethingextraordinary either of wit or sublime."
"If you can put your five fingers throught it, it is a gate, if not a door."
"I am, a stride at a time. A very short space of time through very short time of space."
"I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business."
"Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained."
"Character is better than ancestry, and personal conduct is of more importance than the highest."
"It is our ignorance of things that causes all our admiration and chiefly excites our passions."
"When steam first began to pump and wheels go round at so many revolutions per minute, what are called business habits were intended to make the life of man run in harmony with the steam engine, and his movement rival the train in punctuality."
"I have tried to explore the little talent I have for writing."
"In my younger years my dedication may have expressed itself egotistically."
"Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own."
"I shall soon be quite dead at last in spite of all."
"Hugging trees has a calming effect on me. I'm talking about enormous trees that will be there when we are all dead and gone. I've hugged trees in every part of this little island."
"Skul-man!' he exclaimed as he rushed forward to shake his hand. 'Last I heard you were trapped on a dead world overrun by evil trans-dimensional superfiends!' Skulduggery nodded. 'Just got back."
"Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do."
"I find it rude to laugh at a man with a sword."
"It's not that I want you to go, it's just that I don't want you to stay."
"The sky is the limit. You never have the same experience twice."
"Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued."
"That's the strategy that myself and my party have pursued and are pursuing."
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