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Quotes by Irish Authors
"You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard but by attacking and getting well-hammered yourself."
"The Number our envious Persons, confirmation our capability."
"All professions are a conspiracy against the country."
"I'm the crazy girly captain, Remember?"
"The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself."
"He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches."
"The only difference between a caprice and a life-long passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer."
"Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world."
"My opportunities were still there nay they multiplied tenfold but the strength and youth to cope with them began to fail and to need eking out with the shifty cunning of experience."
"People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it."
"One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry."
"We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money."
"The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them make them."
"He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage."
"The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for."
"Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes."
"How did that go [Butler] asked. 'Your first lengthy conversation with a girl your own age.'Fabulous, said Artemis, his voice dripping with sarcasm. 'We're planning a June wedding."
"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all."
"Caesar was a man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage."
"Imagination is a quality that was given to man compensate him from whats not. The sense of humor was given to console him from what is."
"What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?"
"You may remember that on earth-though of course we never confessed it-the death of anyone we knew, even those we liked best, was always mingled with a certain satisfaction at being finally done with them."
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