top of page
.png){kind=small}
Quotes by Irish Authors
"Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it."
"Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own."
"It is easy-terribly easy-to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to to break a man's spirit is Devil's work."
"When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him."
"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."
"Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world."
"We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see."
"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."
"If we women were particular about men's characters, we should never get married at all."
"Half the lies our opponents tell about us are untrue."
"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."
"Acting allows me to explore new worlds, to discover characters by delving into their lives, and ultimately to become someone else entirely."
"In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever."
"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."
"Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in."
"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."
"High hopes were once formed of democracy, but democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people."
"As we take stock of this century of achievement, Ulster Unionists have every reason to feel proud."
"The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier."
"Everything you desire is always just outside your comfort zone, dear boy. If it wasn't you would already possess it, would you not?"
"In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it."
"Making movies is just like betting on horses at the racetrack."
"It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly."
"To gain what is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else."
"Most remarks that are worth making are commonplace remarks. The things that makes them worth saying is that we really mean them."
"A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, our stitching and unstinting has been naught."
bottom of page