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Quotes by Irish Authors
"My ambition was to stop waiting tables. That was how I measured success: finally, I was able to stop waiting tables, and I was able to pay the rent, and that was by being a stand-up comic. Not a very good stand-up comic, but good enough to make a living."
"One thing that's coming up a lot is: are you as grumpy as you appear from this Black Books thing."
"I knew nothing but shadows and I thought them to be real."
"Finality is death. Perfection is finality. Nothing is perfect. There are lumps in it."
"The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves."
"When did I realize I was God? Well, I was praying and I suddenly realized I was talking to myself."
"In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience."
"Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?"
"Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind."
"The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation."
"Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve."
"I never thought in terms of being a leader. I thought very simply in terms of helping people."
"I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train."
"Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it...."
"If we admit a thing so extraordinary as the creation of this world, it should seem that we admit something strange, and odd, and new to human apprehension, beyond any other miracle whatsoever."
"No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect."
"Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed."
"All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth - in a word, all those bodies which compose the frame of the world - have not any subsistence without a mind."
"My great mistake the fault for which I can't forgive myself is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality."
"There's actually 14 in our family, but we disowned the others."
"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."
"Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die."
"A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments."
"A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal."
"Personality is born out of pain. It is the fire shut up in the flint."
"For ten years Caesar ruled with an iron hand. Then with a wooden foot, and finally with a piece of string."
"Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity."
"The Parent Trap gave my career another boost, starring in family comedies."
"All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed."
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