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Quotes by Irish Authors
"Yet, Malice never was his Aim;He lash'd the Vice but spar'd the Name. No individual could resent,Where thousands equally were meant. His Satry points at no Defect, But what all Mortals may correct...Verses on the death of Dr Swift."
"What is the matter with universities is that the students are school children, whereas it is of the very essence of university education that they should be adults."
"I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life."
"Reformers have the idea that change can be achieved by brute sanity."
"Ordinary women never appeal to one's imagination.They are limited to their century. No glamour every transfigures them. One knows their minds as easily as one knows their bonnets. One can always find them. There is no mystery in any of them."
"Excuse me, Captain. Are you two going to weep salty tears of admiration over a helmet all night, or do we have matters to discuss?"
"Yet the roses are not less lovely for all that."
"There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about."
"Just because an apple falls one hundred times out of a hundred does not mean it will fall on the hundred and first."
"My dear boy, the people who only love once in their lives are really the shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination. Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect-simply a confession of failures."
"Never back a woman you defend, never get quit of a friend on whom you depend, never make face to a foe till he's rife and never get stuck to another man's pfife."
"When I am reading a book whether wise or silly it seems to me to be alive and talking to me."
"Ruby: ...What's so good about being 20? I call them the materialist years. The years we get distracted by all the bullshit. Then we cop on when we hit our 30s and spend those years trying to make up for the 20s. But your 40s? Those years are for enjoying it.Rosie: Hmmm good point. What are the 50s for?Ruby: Fixing what you fucked up in your 40s.Rosie: Great. Looking forward to it."
"Nichts Interessantes ist jemals richtig."
"The humans were protecting their heritage, or so they thought. Strange that Mud Men seem more concerned about the past than the present."
"For the yesterdays and todays, and the tomorrows I can hardly wait for - Thank you."
"Believe me, when you die, it's everybody else's but your problem."
"Salespeople need to "Earn the right to become suppliers more than they ever did before."
"We all need salespeople who deliver value that wasn't there before they arrived."
"The more people I meet the happier I become."
"Clever and attractive women do not want to vote they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men."
"He that accuses all mankind of corruption ought to remember that he is sure to convict only one."
"I could deny it if I liked. I could deny anything if I liked."
"Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government."
"Any fool can make history, but it takes a genius to write it."
"Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic."
"To realise one's nature perfectly-that is what each of us is here for."
"The writers against religion whilst they oppose every system are wisely careful never to set up any of their own."
"Foaly: Anyone see you come in here? Holly: The FBI, CIA, NSA, DEA, MI6. Oh, and the EIB. Foaly: The EIB? Holly: (smirking) Everyone in the building."
"All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent."
"I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets."
"What some invent the rest enlarge."
"Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested intellectual development."
"The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves."
"Obvious? Possibly. Sometimes, common sense is only obvious once you have been shown it to be so. Only after a shortcut has been revealed is it an obvious time saver. Before that, it had remained completely unknown to everyone but the enlightened. You can't know what you don't know and, therefore, never seek anyone's tutorage of the subject."
"The only way to atone for being occasionally a little over-dressed is by being always absolutely over-educated."
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