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Quotes by Irish Authors
"Life at times loses its sense of reality; it appears to us like a weird, optical illusion - a phantasmagoric bubble that will disappear at the slightest breath."
"We all desperately need brilliant sales professionals far more than ever before " to help us, guide us, keep us informed and stop us from making diabolically stupid buying decisions."
"Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about."
"As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death."
"I don't want to earn a living, I want to live."
"The gods have been good to you. But what the gods give they quickly take away. You have only a few years in which to live really, perfectly, and fully. When your youth goes, your beauty will go with it, and then you will suddenly discover that there are no triumphs left for you, or have to content yourself with those mean triumphs that the memory of your past will make more bitter than defeats. Every month as it wanes bring you nearer to something dreadful. Time is jealous of you, and wars against your lilies and your roses."
"Women, as some witty Frenchman once put it, inspire us with the desire to do masterpieces and always prevent us from carrying them out."
"If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life."
"The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man's intelligence."
"The problem with communication is the illusion that is has been accomplished."
"Books are well written, or badly written. That is all."
"The curves of your lips rewrite history."
"Fights you on patriotic principles he robs you on business principles he enslaves you on imperial principles."
"No, mademoiselle, I would not like to see the children's menu. I have no doubt that the children's menu itself tastes better than the meals on it. I would like to order A la carte. Or don't you serve fish to minors?"
"A great devotee of the gospel of getting on."
"She looks as if butter wouldn't melt in her mouth."
"You should feel so driven to help the world that it would weigh you down if a single person received anything but the best."
"What is it with science these days? Everyone is so quick to believe in it, in all these new scientific discoveries, new pills for this, new pills for that. Get thinner, grow hair, yada, yada, yada, but when it requires a little faith in something you all go crazy.' He shook his head, 'If miracles had chemical equations then everyone would believe."
"How can she? She's incapable of understanding anything. Besides, do any of us understand what we are doing? If we did, would we ever do it?"
"I never asked to be a king: it was pushed on me. So if you are going to say 'Son of St Louis: gird on the sword of your ancestors, and lead us to victory' you may spare your breath to cool your porridge; for I cannot do it. I am not built that way; and there is an end of it."
"MRS PEARCE. Mr Higgins: youre tempting the girl. It's not right. She should think of the future.HIGGINS. At her age! Nonsense! Time enough to think of the future when you havnt any future to think of."
"If an imaginative boy has a sufficiently rich mother who has intelligence, personal grace, dignity of character without harshness, and a cultivated sense of the best art of her time to enable her to make her house beautiful, she sets a standard for him against which very few women can struggle, besides effecting for him a disengagement of his affections, his sense of beauty, and his idealism from his specifically sexual impulses."
"For what is truth? In matters of religion, it is simply the opinion that has survived. In matters of science, it is the ultimate sensation. In matters of art, it is one's last mood."
"Why do customers (and that includes you and me) find it so difficult to recall more than a couple of occasions when they felt that they were treated exceptionally by the salespeople who dealt with them?"
"There were moments when he looked on evil simply as a mode through which he could realize his conception of the beautiful."
"For each man kills the thing he loves yet each man does not diehe does not die a death of shame on a day of dark disgracenor have a noose about his neck, nor a cloth upon his facenor drop feet foremost through the floor into an empty spaceHe does not sit with silent men who watch him night and dayWho watch him when he tries to weep and when he tries to prayWho watch him lest himself should rob the prison of its prey."
"Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction."
"And to the little Squirrel who lived in the fir-tree, and was lonely, he said, 'Where is my mother?' And the Squirrel answered, 'Thou hast slain mine. Dost thou seek to slay thine also?"
"Me,' Artemis blurted. 'I'm the nut.'Artemis could have sworn the squid winked at him before bringing the five-ton chunk of spacecraft swinging down toward the morsel of meat in its blue shell.'I'm the nut!' Artemis shouted again, a little hysterically, it must be said."
"If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance."
"When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work."
"There was something tragic in a friendship so colored by romance."
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