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Quotes by Irish Authors
"Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship."
"Difficulties are just things to overcome, after all."
"Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes."
"I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day."
"Control of vibrato helps your musical expression."
"A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal."
"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."
"Oh yes, after the war, and we were all starving - we had no proper food or anything - no proper shoes."
"Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world."
"If we women were particular about men's characters, we should never get married at all."
"Acting allows me to explore new worlds, to discover characters by delving into their lives, and ultimately to become someone else entirely."
"When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him."
"I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality."
"If you were a pretty boy pop singer, it would wreck you, growing older."
"As we take stock of this century of achievement, Ulster Unionists have every reason to feel proud."
"Science never solves a problem without creating ten more."
"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."
"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."
"There's nothing in the world that isn't good, bad, and indifferent."
"Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall."
"And then you have the classical ballerinas, they're like sopranos. Applied to the dance."
"In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever."
"The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier."
"There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met."
"It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly."
"Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in."
"Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self."
"If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed."
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