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Quotes by Irish Authors
"Sceptics are persuaded by a good reputation, for it is an unspoken statement of proof."
"The quality of a play is the quality of its ideas."
"How does she know it's the right room?' wondered Descant.Oh, I don't know; mabye it's the magical red glow coming from the doorway, or perhaps it's the deafening howl of the temporal winds.' said Mervall. Descant nodded.'You could be right, brother. And don't think I don't know sarcasm when I hear it."
"In this world of half-jobs and liars, I will prevail."
"There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present."
"Confusing monogamy with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other error."
"Never resist temptation: prove all things: hold fast that which is good."
"It is your duty to save these prospects from that disappointment. Every potential customer, who misses out on what you have to offer, due to your lack of zeal or passion, every prospect who ends up with an excuse of an alternative from your lacklustre competition, should rest heavy on your conscience."
"My life-my whole life- take it, and do with it what you will. I love you-love you as I have never loved any living thing. From the moment I met you I loved you, loved you blindly, adoringly,madly!You didn't know it then-you know it now."
"Even things that are true can be proved."
"The only time you have is the where and when of right now. There will always be good times, bad times, hard times, and complete disasters. However, there is no other option but to be where you are, when you are. That is a universal truth for everyone. The important thing is how you respond, what you decide to do, and when you decide to do it."
"Well, the way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test reality we must see it on the tight rope. When the verities become acrobats, we can judge them."
"How pale the Princess is! Never have I seen her so pale. She is like the shadow of a white rose in a mirror of silver."
"There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot."
"If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton you may as well make it dance."
"I've put my genius into my life I've only put my talent into my works."
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself."
"Beauty has as many meanings as man has moods. Beauty is the symbol of symbols. Beauty reveals everything, because it expresses nothing. When it shows us itself, it shows us the whole fiery-coloured world."
"Well I won't argue about the matter. You always want to argue about things.That is exactly what things were originally made for."
"Try as we may we cannot get behind things to the reality. And the terrible reason may be that there is no reality in things apart from their appearances."
"And if life be, as it surely is, a problem to me, I am no less a problem to life."
"Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation, and conversation must have a common basis, and between two people of widely different culture the only common basis possible is the lowest level."
"How sad it is!" murmured Dorian Gray with his eyes still fixed upon his own portrait. "How sad it is! I shall grow old, and horrible, and dreadful. But this picture will remain always young. It will never be older than this particular day of June" . If it were only the other way! If it were I who was to be always young, and the picture that was to grow old! For that-for that-I would give everything! Yes, there is nothing in the whole world I would not give! I would give my soul for that!"
"It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information."
"The only people to whose opinions I listen now with any respect are people much younger than myself. They seem in front of me. Life has revealed to them her latest wonder."
"To become a work of art is the object of living."
"It... is the best opportunity we've had in the last 25 years to bring about a settlement in Northern Ireland, and I think we should leave no stone unturned to achieve that."
"It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it."
"There is an element of autobiography in all fiction in that pain or distress, or pleasure, is based on the author's own. But in my case that is as far as it goes."
"Victor Vigny: A monkey glances up and sees a banana, and that's as far as he looks. A visionary looks up and sees the moon.Conor Broekhart: Which resembles a giant banana."
"Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything."
"History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake."
"A CD. How quaint. We have these in museums."
"No: a poor man who is ungrateful, unthrifty, discontented and rebellious, is probably a real personality, and has much in him...As for the virtuous poor...they have made private terms with the enemy, and sold their birthright for very poor pottage."
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