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Quotes by Irish Authors
"The only people who are desperate to go on the show are people we're desperate not to have on the show."
"The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance."
"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."
"Loud roared the dreadful thunder, The rain a deluge showers."
"I read all the time. I was reading a book I admire very much by Alice McDermot called Charming Billy."
"The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity."
"If there is an error of human judgment, I am the human."
"The relevance of Marxism to science is that it removes it from its imagined position of complete detachment and shows it as a part, but a critically important part, of economy and social development."
"You try various things when you're growing up. I was an attache in the Foreign Service for a while and then I drove a bulldozer, but neither of those panned out for me so it had to be stand-up."
"In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it."
"Even the distribution of rations leaves much to be desired; the fatigue party, well-intentioned and sympathetic though it be, often finds itself short of provisions."
"You must go on.I can't go on.I'll go on."
"All the children in the school should learn the steps of everything, before they learn the thing, then they know which step they're doing better, because your voice is in certain steps and has to do most of the things that have been composed in those steps."
"Divorce is a by-product of the fact that maybe the nuclear unit is gone."
"Few men could explain why they enlisted, and if they attempted they might only prove that they had done as a politician said the electorate does, the right thing from the wrong motive."
"Those who plot the destruction of others often perish in the attempt."
"I understand perfectly. Darquesse isn't a separate entity. She isn't another person. She's you. If you make the wrong choices, if you stop loving the people who love you, if you allow the world to twist and turn and change you, then yes, the future we've seen will come to pass. But if you fight, and if you kick, and struggle, and refuse to give in to the apathy, or the anger, or the hopelessness, then you'll change the future, and you'll walk your own path. And I'll be right there beside you, Valkyrie. I'll always be beside you."
"Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature."
"But I'm really enjoying my retirement. I get to sleep in every day. I do crossword puzzles and eat cake."
"I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train."
"You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?"
"Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it...."
"There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it."
"I shall always be a flower girl to Professor Higgins, because he always treats me as a flower girl, and always will; but I know I can be a lady to you, because you always treat me as a lady, and always will."
"Such decisions will be far reaching and difficult. But you never lacked courage in the past. Your courage is now needed for the future."
"Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time."
"The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine."
"O'Neill presents a very complex multi-layered kind of challenge. His characters are always deeply complex and, to a great extent, inaccessible."
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