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Quotes by Irish Authors
"The studio thought I was crazy to perform all of my own fencing stunts, but I loved it."
"It was a perfect marriage. She didn't want to and he couldn't."
"Money does not make you happy but it quiets the nerves."
"There are three kinds of despots. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the body. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul and body alike. The first is called the Prince. The second is called the Pope. The third is called the People."
"Lest when I am gone you may be at a loss for an epitaph for me, let me give you one - He Fed Fevers."
"There's no reason to bring religion into it. I think we ought to have as great a regard for religion as we can, so as to keep it out of as many things as possible."
"Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare."
"I have fed purely upon ale; I have eat my ale, drank my ale, and I always sleep upon ale."
"The glory of the old Irish nation, which in our hour will grow young and strong again. Should we fail, the country will not be worth more than it is now. The sword of famine is less sparing than the bayonet of the soldier."
"It's true that I have spoken about doing a book before, but then everyone you speak to is planning to write a book."
"It is difficult for me to believe that quantum mechanics, working very well for currently practical set-ups, will nevertheless fail badly with improvements in counter efficiency."
"Well, we know that eighteen years after that solemn declaration it was disregarded, and the Irish Parliament, which lasted for five hundred years, was destroyed by the Act of Union. Gentlemen, the Act of Union was carried by force and fraud, by treachery and falsehood."
"The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means."
"The note of the perfect personality is not rebellion, but peace."
"The only thing I shall talk about is my sporting achievements at school. My primary sporting achievement at school was that I dodged games for two complete years and was well through the third year before they discovered that I had completely avoided all games."
"A very considerable body of the German people live in America and propose to fight that Government. Bourke in his great speech last week welcoming the Belgian mission to Boston worked out the President's meaning with care."
"I like the level of fame that I have. You get nice tables in restaurants sometimes, but fame isn't something that I find comfortable."
"In working class districts, you had several families living together in the one house, and it was very difficult to get a house, because the politicians who controlled housing were doing so in a very discriminatory fashion."
"Some time ago, I told Larry King that I planned to live to be 102. I still do."
"In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way."
"A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul."
"The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things."
"We are totally committed to ending partition and to creating the conditions for unity and independence."
"Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real."
"The brain had its own food on which it battened, and the imagination,made grotesque by terror, twisted and distorted as a living thing by pain,danced like some foul puppet on a stand and grinned through moving masks."
"There are such beings as vampires, some of us have evidence that they exist. Even had we not the proof of our own unhappy experience, the teachings and the records of the past give proof enough for sane peoples."
"What pisses me off is when I've got seven or eight record company fat pig men sitting there telling me what to wear."
"A sword, a spade, and a thought should never be allowed to rust."
"It's an odd thing, but anyone who disappears is said to be seen in San Francisco.It must be a delightful city and possess all the attractions of the next world."
"All I ask is the chance to prove that money can't make me happy."
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