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Quotes by Irish Authors
"It has been said that the great events of the world take place in the brain.It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also."
"The people of England are never so happy as when you tell them they are ruined."
"I have a business appointment that I am anxious... to miss."
"There's my life, why not, it is one, if you like, if you must, I don't say no, this evening. There has to be one, it seems, once there is speech, no need of a story, a story is not compulsory, just a life, that's the mistake I made, one of the mistakes, to have wanted a story for myself, whereas life alone is enough."
"States can be deterred by the fear of retaliation; non-state organisations cannot by deterred at all."
"U.S. companies earn more from their investments in the EU than in the rest of the world combined."
"Here's lumbos. Where misties swaddlum, where misches lodge none, where mystries pour kind on, O sleepy! So be yet!"
"Cast your mind on other days that we in coming days may be still the indomitable Irishry."
"You are discovering the conversation that the customer wants to have, instead of the dreadfully limiting presentation you would have given him. And in doing so, you can help him to make a truly wonderful buying decision."
"The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding. The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married. One should always be in love - that's the reason one should never marry."
"Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise."
"The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly-that is what each of us is here for. People are afraid of themselves, nowadays. They have forgotten the highest of all duties, the duty that one owes to one's self. Of course, they are charitable. They feed the hungry and clothe the beggar. But their own souls starve, and are naked."
"It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way."
"Beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins."
"You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul."
"For that (the rapt one warns) is what papyr is meed of, made of, hides and hints and misses in prints."
"European investment in Texas alone exceeds all U.S. investment in China and Japan put together."
"Proper words in proper places make the true definition of a style."
"Wit is the most rascally, contemptible, beggarly thing on the face of the earth."
"The world has become sad because a puppet was once melancholy. The nihilist, that strange martyr who has no faith, who goes to the stake without enthusiasm, and dies for what he does not believe in, is a purely literary product. He was invented by Turgenev, and completed by Dostoevsky. Robespierre came out of the pages of Rousseau as surely as the People's Palace rose out debris of a novel. Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose."
"If we could only live on good food like that, he said to her somewhat loudly, we wouldn't have the country full of rotten teeth and rotten guts. Living in a bogswamp, eating cheap food and the streets paved with dust, horsedung and consumptives' spits."
"The creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day."
"My mouth is full of decayed teeth and my soul of decayed ambitions."
"It's a matter of reducing the work to its very simplest possible state, eliminating all of the things that lead away from the guts of the work, the thing the work is really about. Anything that's there must build towards its over-all organization and meaning."
"Indifference is the revenge the world takes on mediocrities."
"I believe in the discipline of silence and could talk for hours about it."
"Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence."
"Love between man and man is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse and friendship between man and woman is impossible because there must be sexual intercourse."
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
"Astride of a grave and a difficult birth.Down in the hole, lingeringly, the grave digger puts on the forceps.We have time to grow old.The air is full of our cries.But habit is a great deadener.At me too someone is looking, of me too someone is saying, He is sleeping, he knows nothing.Let him sleep on."
"It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art."
"If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel."
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