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Quotes by Irish Authors
"Intellectual generalities are always interesting, but generalities in morals mean absolutely nothing."
"Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance."
"And I might add the confidence with which distracted persons do oftentimes, when they are awake, think, they see black fiends in places, where there is no black object in sight without them."
"I couldn't care less about who sees my bits... My friends asked how I could do scenes like that and not get excited, but it wasn't like that. My bits looked the size of a cashew nut!"
"It's your own personal statement of who you want to become, based on how you wish to be remembered."
"Ireland has a role to play in making the E.U. united and strong."
"A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament."
"That's where my job comes in. Getting the E.U. and U.S. to agree."
"I was drawn to things I thought were either sexy or aggressive - or both."
"The E.U. is more than just a trade organization or a common market; it is a guarantee of democracy, freedom, justice, and human rights. Nations cannot stay in the E.U. if they do not respect these guarantees."
"When we have done our best, we can, as a united people, take whatever may befall with calm courage and confidence that this old nation will survive and if death should come to many of us, death is not the end."
"Men are wise in proportion not to their experience but to their capacity for experience."
"When I'm out with a group I hide in the corner and get legless. I just make sure my friends shield me."
"Why should we put ourselves out of our way to do anything for posterity? For what has posterity ever done for us?"
"And Beauty is a form of Genius - is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation."
"People say sometimes that Beauty is superficial. That may be so. But at least it is not so superficial as Thought is. To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders. It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible."
"We should silence anyone who opposes the right to freedom of speech."
"I knew nothing but shadows and I thought them to be real."
"It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible not the invisible."
"Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week."
"There is a courageous wisdom there is also a false reptile prudence the result not of caution but of fear."
"My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire."
"When the E.U. and the U.S. agree, other countries follow."
"All men that are ruined are ruined on the side of their natural propensities."
"It is indeed hard for the strong to be just to the weak, but acting justly always has its rewards."
"Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it."
"Unemployment is due to the large import of goods from Britain and other countries. The Government haven't used the powers which they have for the benefit of the country."
"You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race."
"Whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain, and danger, that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible, or is conversant about terrible objects, or operates in a manner analogous to terror, is a source of the sublime; that is, it is productive of the strongest emotion which the mind is capable of feeling .... When danger or pain press too nearly, they are incapable of giving any delight, and [yet] with certain modifications, they may be, and they are delightful, as we every day experience."
"Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both."
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