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Quotes by Irish Authors
"So many plays with magic in them that would be a terrific invitation to an imaginative animation team."
"It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man'sto keep unmarried as long as he can."
"Most people live for love and admiration. But it is by love and admiration that one should live. If any love is shown us we should recognize that we are quite unworthy of it. Nobody is worthy to be loved... or if that phrase is a bitter one to bear, let us say that everyone is worthy of love, except him who thinks he is. Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling.."
"Somebody must always be doing something new, or life would get very dull."
"A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, our stitching and unstinting has been naught."
"I certainly have been guilty of trying to sweep things under the carpet."
"The Good Friday Agreement and the basic rights and entitlements of citizens that are enshrined within it must be defended and actively promoted by London and Dublin."
"I was the class clown so I was used to performing and fooling around in front of my friends."
"Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution."
"He took her hand in his and knelt before her. Valkyrie looked at him. He was serious. (...)'Dude, I'm sixteen.''I love you.''That doesn't make me any older. Stand up.''Not until you say yes.''You're going to shuffle around on your knees for the rest of your life? Stand up, for God's sake.''Be my wife.' 'Shut the hell up."
"I'm a much nicer person since my wife died. I found out what pain is, so on that level I'm much nicer."
"My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when I think of all I might have learned at home by myself."
"The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else."
"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 is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary."
"A Buddhist or a good atheist is as acceptable to God as a good Catholic."
"The best thanks we could offer those who went before and raised the Irish working class from their knees was to press forward with determination and enthusiasm towards the ultimate goal of their efforts, a Co-operative Commonwealth for Ireland."
"There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet."
"Even if the last move did not succeed, the inner command says move again."
"The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves."
"Anticipation of movement, through muscular innervation and memory, by its retention of nerve impulse images, extend the present to the limit of a second or so."
"It is a most disgraceful shame the way in which Irishmen are brought up. They are ashamed of their language, institutions, and of everything Irish."
"The doctors found out that Bunbury could not live, that is what I mean - so Bunbury died.He seems to have had great confidence in the opinion of his physicians. I am glad, however, that he made up his mind at the last to some definite course of action, and acted under proper medical advice."
"Simple stories... emerge as lovely films or television pieces."
"On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting."
"There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it."
"If we admit a thing so extraordinary as the creation of this world, it should seem that we admit something strange, and odd, and new to human apprehension, beyond any other miracle whatsoever."
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