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Quotes by Irish Authors
"Foreign languages are another favourite topic, and as these men are bilingual they have a fair notion of what it means to speak and think in many different idioms."
"In all unmerciful actions, the worst of men pay this compliment at least to humanity, as to endeavour to wear as much of the appearance of it, as the case will well let them."
"The truth is that I'm constitutionally incapable of doing an ordinary job."
"Woman is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one."
"Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw."
"The Theory of Evolution has more holes in it than a dam made out of Swiss cheese."
"Altho that is so, Ireland has always denied and Ireland still denies that the Union was binding upon her either legally or morally. And here on this historic occasion we have assembled to renew our protest and to place it upon record."
"When I can't talk sense, I talk metaphor."
"All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous."
"The dark shadow we seem to see in the distance is not really a mountain ahead, but the shadow of the mountain behind - a shadow from the past thrown forward into our future. It is a dark sludge of historical sectarianism. We can leave it behind us if we wish."
"Then, in that case, all the rest, all that I thought I thought and all that I felt I felt, all the rest before me now, in fact... O, give it up old chap! Sleep it off!"
"The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written."
"The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends."
"Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations."
"You know, sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.''And yet it is still extremely funny."
"I don't remember having a crush on a boy when I was a girl. I don't even remember my first kiss."
"Sinn Fein has productively taken the example of South Africa and, as we develop the peace process, we continue to use examples from South Africa."
"We were doing it under the most extraordinary circumstances, but the first out of the tent in the morning would be David Lean. He said to me on the very first day of shooting, Pete, this is the beginning of a great adventure."
"I take the theater seriously in that I loathe it, I'm bored by it."
"If the British government is prepared to say that the Unionists will not have a veto over British government policy and that guns, vetoes and injustices will all be left outside the door, then there is no good reason why talks cannot take place in an appropriate atmosphere."
"We are all born mad. Some remain so."
"Usually speaking the worst-bred person in company is a young traveller just returned from abroad."
"We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is."
"You can't have everything, I've often noticed it."
"It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind."
"Irishmen are not reserved, and the company appeared dying to be intimately acquainted."
"Sinn Fein has demonstrated the ability to play a leadership role as part of a popular movement towards peace, equality and justice."
"Yeah, I think Michael has had to deal with that label of being Michael Caine for a long time."
"The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries."
"In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all."
"I believe that I am only at a beginning, only knocking at a door, and I believe that the best is yet to come."
"He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out."
"There is nothing politically right that is morally wrong."
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