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Quotes by Irish Authors
"Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear.Just as vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people.And falsehoods the truths of other people.Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance."
"Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own."
"When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any."
"Well, Company of Wolves was about that literally, about fairy tales."
"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."
"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."
"The prosperity of a nation requires the protection of a senate. Hereafter a national senate may require the protection of a national army."
"Like everybody at that age, I read an awful lot of pulp fiction. But at the same time, I also read quite a bit of history and read that as much for pleasure as part of a curriculum."
"She is very clever, too clever for a woman. She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness. It is the feet of clay that make the gold of the image precious. Her feet are very pretty, but they are not feet of clay. White porcelain feet, if you like. They have been through the fire, and what fire does not destroy, it hardens. She has had experiences."
"I can't really put it in one sentence because although on one hand Preacher is about faith and yes it is also about, I suppose, the search for God, the search for faith and the manipulation and the abuse committed by figures in whom I suppose people have faith."
"Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible."
"A living skeleton isn't enough for you, is it? What does it take to impress young people these days?"
"He could wear hats. He could wear an assortment of hats of different shapes and styles. Boater hats, cowboy hats, bowler hats. The list went on. Pork-pie hats, bucket hats, trillbies and panamas. Top hats, straw hats, trapper hats. Wide brim narrow brim, stingy brim. He could wear a fez. Fezzes were cool. Hadn't someone once said that fezzes were cool? He was pretty aur ether had. And they were. They were cool."
"Billing and cooing to me is worse to witness an execution."
"Perhaps after all she put me in her rectum. A matter of complete indifference to me, I needn't tell you. But is it true love, in the rectum? That's what bothers me sometimes. Have I never known true love, after all?"
"Hitman does well and it certainly does well enough to survive, but at the same time I don't want to involve the character into the DC Universe even if it meant more sales, to the point where we sort of upset the balance that we have at the moment."
"At that time, the army leadership said the implementation of this agreement would allow everyone, including the IRA, to take its political objectives forward by peaceful and democratic means."
"Did St. Francis preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the cats."
"One's performance is often heightened by the brilliance and generosity of other actors."
"I'm really starting to think everything happens for a reason."
"Ay, ay, the best terms will grow obsolete: damns have had their day."
"I think technique can be taught but I think the only way to learn to write is to read, and I see writing and reading as completely related. One almost couldn't exist without the other."
"I've never been in a bad play. There might have been bad productions and I might have been bad in them, but I've never been in a play that wasn't interesting or worthwhile doing on some level."
"I thought I'd begin by reading a poem by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of mine."
"To discover the mode of life or of art whereby my spirit could express itself in unfettered freedom."
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