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Quotes by Irish Authors
"I just think that things should be allowed to run their course, and not turned into a Disney ride."
"He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave."
"Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck."
"Nothing but the natural ignorance of the public, countenanced by the inoculated erroneousness of the ordinary general medical practitioners, makes such a barbarism as vaccination possible.......Recent developments have shown that an inoculation made in the usual general practitioner's light-hearted way, without previous highly skilled examination of the state of the patient's blood, is just as likely to be a simple manslaughter as a cure or preventive. But vaccination is nothing short of attempted murder. A skilled bacteriologist would just as soon think of cutting his child's arm and rubbing the contents of the dustpan into the wound, as vaccinating it in the same."
"Having started out in theatre, I feel an impulse to do it as much as I can."
"I think the main thing, don't you, is to keep the show on the road."
"There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue."
"Humility, that low, sweet root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot."
"Therefore they should come to the table and reach an agreement that would protect their identity."
"Our greatest glory consists not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall."
"I was out of sorts. They are deep, my sorts, a deep ditch, and I am not often out of them."
"With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive."
"To be always what I am - and so changed from what I was."
"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."
"You know it is not my interest to pay the principal, or my principal to pay the interest."
"Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues."
"To gain what is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else."
"Kinsey's quest was really for us all to be tolerant and accepting of each other."
"Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed."
"You see things; and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?""
"Everything that we inherit, the rain, the skies, the speech, and anybody who works in the English language in Ireland knows that there's the dead ghost of Gaelic in the language we use and listen to and that those things will reflect our Irish identity."
"I used to love watching him as a player, so it is a joy to play alongside him. I might take the mickey out of him, but deep down I have so much admiration for him."
"Valkyrie walked to the back door, which hadn't been closed properly, shut it and locked it. There was now a baby in the house, after all. She couldn't take the chance that a wild animal might wander in and make off with Alice, like those dingoes in Australia. She was probably being unfair to both dingoes and Australia, but she couldn't risk it. Locked doors kept the dingoes out, and that's all there was to it, even if she didn't know what a dingo actually was. She took out her phone, searched the Internet, found a picture of a baby dingo and now she really wanted a baby dingo for a pet."
"I find it incredibly tedious, hate that it murders itself with its own conservative pomposity."
"Irish Americans are no more Irish than Black Americans are Africans."
"I have been heartbroken once and it has affected all my relationships from there on. But now I look at it as a occupational hazard. If you are in the meat market at some point you are gonna get mad cows disease."
"Non-proliferation will only work if all states are willing to cooperate, and that will only happen if all feel they are being treated fairly."
"Night descended on Roarhaven like a woolly blanket of blackness with holes in it that were the stars."
"It is difficult for me to believe that quantum mechanics, working very well for currently practical set-ups, will nevertheless fail badly with improvements in counter efficiency."
"The soldiers' last meal is generally served out about five o'clock in the afternoon, sometimes earlier; and a stretch of fourteen hours intervenes between then and breakfast."
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