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Quotes by Irish Authors
"One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged."
"I am sick of women who love one. Women who hate one are much more interesting."
"Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women's husbands."
"The very essence of romance is uncertainty."
"A man's life is of more value than a woman's. It has larger issues, wider scope, greater ambitions. Our lives revolve in curves of emotions. It is upon lines of intellect that a man's life progresses. I have just learnt this, and much else with it, from Lord Goring. And I will not spoil your life for you, nor see you spoil it as a sacrifice to me, a useless sacrifice."
"Ugh!' snarled the Wolf, as he limped through the brushwood with his tail between his legs, 'this is perfectly monstrous weather. Why doesn't the Government look to it?"
"Morality is not respectability."
"Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same."
"The companies that survive longest are the one's that work out what they uniquely can give to the world not just growth or money but their excellence, their respect for others, or their ability to make people happy. Some call those things a soul."
"The nineteenth century dislike of realism is the rage of Caliban seeing his own face in a glass. The nineteenth century dislike of romanticism is the rage of Caliban not seeing his own face in a glass."
"She lives in the poetry she cannot write."
"Humm humm haaa. Rahmumm humm haaaa,' intoned Opal, finishing her chant. 'Peace be inside me, tolerance all around me, forgiveness in my path. Now, Mervall, show me where the filthy human is so that I may feed him his organs."
"Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all eternity."
"In short, the difference between you and your doctor is that he has a well-designed reputation and you do not."
"If I can make you feel the same way that I feel about my product or service we'll have a meaningful conversation about it and how it can help. The trouble is that most sales people don't feel anything. Nothing at all."
"Actors are so fortunate. They can choose whether they will appear in tragedy or in comedy, whether they will suffer or make merry, laugh or shed tears. But in real life it is different. Most men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualifications. Our Guildensterns play Hamlet for us, and our Hamlets have to jest like Prince Hal. The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast."
"The fickleness of the woman I love is equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me."
"How do I go about cataloguing my dreams?"
"You've got to be driven to become successful."
"Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible."
"You are responsible for your own life and what happens in it, so are the other people."
"The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood."
"When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity."
"What man really wishes to do he will find a means of doing."
"And when all was said and done the lies a fellow told about himself couldn't probably hold a proverbial candle to the wholesale whoppers other fellows coined about him."
"Why had it been left for a stranger to reveal him to himself?"
"For the recognition of private property has really harmed Individualism, and obscured it, by confusing a man with what he possesses."
"In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances, invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth."
"Niagara ... is the first disappointment in the married life of many Americans who spend their honeymoon there."
"He tried to tell me week after week to accept things as they were and move on with my life. But if there was one man who had put his life on hold to wait for something or someone, it was him."
"And the young Fisherman said to himself: "How strange a thing this is! The Priest telleth me that the Soul is worth all the gold in the world, and the merchants say that it is not worth a clipped piece of silver."
"Explain the value and justify the cost - People don't mind paying, they just don't like to overpay."
"The forms are many in which the unchanging seeks relief from its formlessness."
"There's never an end for the sea."
"He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career."
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