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Quotes by Irish Authors
"Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver."
"It was nothing, just the normal thing to do at the time."
"The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off - we do not have to stand for this."
"To gain what is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else."
"Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities - that's training or instruction - but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed."
"Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid."
"Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives."
"I certainly have been guilty of trying to sweep things under the carpet."
"Irish Americans are no more Irish than Black Americans are Africans."
"To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now."
"Everything you desire is always just outside your comfort zone, dear boy. If it wasn't you would already possess it, would you not?"
"To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness."
"I shall not waste any of our brief time together flattering your ego, as others have done before, with all this nonsense about skills and talents that do not help, or worse, that you do not actually possess."
"Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it...."
"There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship."
"You see things; and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?""
"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."
"You achieve the surreal jokes through the realism by making it elastic."
"Theater is dangerously open to repetition. It's exciting when you hit on a new way."
"We owe it to our children to be better stewards of the environment. The alternative? - a world without whales. It's too terrible to imagine."
"In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it."
"To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill."
"Few men could explain why they enlisted, and if they attempted they might only prove that they had done as a politician said the electorate does, the right thing from the wrong motive."
"I'm sure I'm very difficult to live with because of my make-up and personality."
"We must see our present fight right through to the very end."
"I just think that things should be allowed to run their course, and not turned into a Disney ride."
"I bet Maurice Gibb's heart monitor was singing the tune of Stayin' Alive."
"The American white relegates the black to the rank of shoeshine boy, and he concludes from this that the black is good for nothing but shining shoes."
"Humility, that low, sweet root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot."
"John Candy knew he was going to die. He told me on his 40th birthday. He said, well, Maureen, I'm on borrowed time."
"There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet."
"With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive."
"The present aristocracy of western culture, at the moment when it most clearly dominates the world, is being imitated rapidly and successfully in every eastern country."
"On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting."
"So many plays with magic in them that would be a terrific invitation to an imaginative animation team."
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