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Quotes by Irish Authors
"A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally."
"Difficulties are just things to overcome, after all."
"Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes."
"Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship."
"Control of vibrato helps your musical expression."
"I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality."
"A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal."
"If we women were particular about men's characters, we should never get married at all."
"If you were a pretty boy pop singer, it would wreck you, growing older."
"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."
"I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day."
"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."
"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."
"When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him."
"Oh yes, after the war, and we were all starving - we had no proper food or anything - no proper shoes."
"There's nothing in the world that isn't good, bad, and indifferent."
"Acting allows me to explore new worlds, to discover characters by delving into their lives, and ultimately to become someone else entirely."
"It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly."
"I'm not the kind of actor that would know what my character had for breakfast last Tuesday."
"There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship."
"America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between."
"In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever."
"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."
"And then you have the classical ballerinas, they're like sopranos. Applied to the dance."
"The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity."
"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."
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