Quotes by Irish Authors - Page 57

The forms are many in which the unchanging seeks relief from its formlessness.
Samuel Beckett
By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
Oscar Wilde
Thus fortified I might take my rest in peace. But dreams come through stone walls, light up dark rooms, or darken light ones, and their persons make their exists and their entrances as they please, and laugh at locksmiths.
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
People don't want the truth,' he says, waving a hand at the streets around us. 'They want better-quality lies. High definition lies on fifty-inch screens.
Paul Murray
The mimicry of passion is the most intolerable of all poses.
Oscar Wilde
When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value, then nothing comes more naturally to men than murder.—SIMONE WEIL
Ann McElhinney
Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine, the life, the soul of reading! Take them out and one cold eternal winter would reign in every page. Restore them to the writer - he steps forth like a bridegroom, bids them all-hail, brings in variety and forbids the appetite to fail.
Laurence Sterne
Animals are my friends...and I don't eat my friends.
George Bernard Shaw
Time is your cathedral. You know the present is only a pretty illusion in the minds of men. And I think you know that nothing has ever passed away, not entirely.
Caitlín R. Kiernan
We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.
Oscar Wilde
Do you think we’ll be waiting long?” Valkyrie asked,keeping her voice low.“The last time we were in this building, we accused theGrand Mage of being a traitor,” Skulduggery said. “Yes, I thinkwe’ll be waiting long.
Derek Landy
Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.
Oscar Wilde
It is always worth itemizing happiness, there is so much of the other thing in a life, you had better put down the markers of happiness while you can.
Sebastian Barry
Ah, sleep, clothe me in thy velvet cloak.
Stewart Stafford
America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.
Oscar Wilde
Heart-mysteries there, and yet when all is saidIt was the dream itself enchanted me("The Circus Animal's Desertion")
W.B. Yeats
Today he became a killer, or else a corpse.
Eoin Colfer
Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
Oscar Wilde
The crow flew closer, as if to hear its praises.
Emma Donoghue
The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde
more guilt, guilt, guilt. That's the Irish condition.
Adrian McKinty
When I am at my work each dayIn the fields so fresh and greenI often think of riches and the way things might have beenBut believe me when I tell you when I get home each dayI'm as happy as a sandboy with my wee cup of tay
Patrick McCabe
The highest as the lowest form of criticism is a mode of autobiography. Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.
Oscar Wilde
There’s no escaping it,” he’d been fond of telling us when he was well, “the way you look defines who you are. You might argue for your soul, or your heart, but everyone else in the world will judge you on your big nose or your weak chin. Six billion people could be wrong, but you’ll never get them to admit it.
Paul Murray
Love, I thought to myself abstractedly. Not 'This is love' or 'Is this love?' Not a sentence, not a certainty, not a thought with moving parts or direction. Just love, all of it, as it is. Whether it's enough or not. Wthether it's real or we're making it up. However shoddy it gets, or bent out of shape. It's still extraordinary. However foolish, however vain. However badly it ends. Love.
Julian Gough
you simply couldn't guard yourself against dreams. they attacked late at night when a person was at the most vulnerable.
Kate O'Riordan
A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.
Oscar Wilde
Artificial manners vanish the moment the natural passions are touched.
Maria Edgeworth
I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.
George Bernard Shaw
The tears I feel todayI'll wait to shed tomorrow.Though I'll not sleep this nightNor find surcease from sorrow.My eyes must keep their sight:I dare not be tear-blinded.I must be free to talkNot choked with grief, clear-minded.My mouth cannot betrayThe anguish that I know.Yes, I'll keep my tears til later:But my grief will never go.
Anne McCaffrey
So I'm back again to the eternal question, the one that has plagued me all my life: How Do Other People Do It? How come they were given life's rule book and I missed out? Where was I when God was dispensing capability and cop on? Looking at shoes, probably.
Marian Keyes
We get our voice from the voices of others. Read promiscuously. Imitate, copy, but become your own voice.
Colum McCann
A lonely impulse of delight
W.B. Yeats
When you don't have any money the problem is food. When you have money it's sex. When you have both it's health. If everything is simply jake then you're frightened of death.
J.P. Donleavy
‎I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that is the only way of insuring one's immortality.
James Joyce
Trust me, you will get plenty of "advice" from everyone and anyone on the best way to do things, and remember that you don't have to take any of it. Know that whatever you choose, THE PEOPLE WHO LOVE YOU AND SUPPORT YOU THE MOST WON'T MAKE THE DAY ABOUT THEM, they'll make it about you and him, and show up to celebrate your special day regardless of what you decide to do.
Melissa Hill
A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.
Oscar Wilde
All writers are waiting for replies. That’s what I’ve learned. Maybe all human beings are
Niall Williams
Neither did she realise yet that grief is a kind of glue, too, that the essence of humanity is this empathy, and that we fall together in that moment of tenderest perception when we see and feel each other's wounds and know another's sorrow like a brother of our own.
Niall Williams
Wine comes in at the mouth and love comes in at the eye that's all we shall know for truth before we grow old and die.
William Butler Yeats
You selfish bitch!"She had known for a long time that putting her needs above those of Adam's wife and children was indeed selfish. She had no real answer to the accusation thrown at her."I'm sorry" she said, with her head in her hands."you're sorry?" came her adversary's disbelieving reply."I am. I'm sorry he married you when he was in love with me. I'm sorry I couldn't have loved someone else. I'm sorry your marriage is a joke and I'm sorry that I'm alone. I'm sorry for a lot of things - for you, for your kids, for me and for him. I spend most of my time being sorry."For a moment there was silence at the end of the line."all you had to do was stay away""if only I could have." tears escaped and raced down her cheeks."I hate you!
Anna McPartlin
The whole art of life is knowing the right time to say things.
Maeve Binchy
What some invent the rest enlarge.
Jonathan Swift
Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us.
Oscar Wilde
Yet ruled he not long, so great had been his suffering, and so bitter the fire of his testing, for after the space of three years he died. And he who came after him ruled evilly.
Oscar Wilde
You love the beauty that you can see and touch and handle, the beauty that you can destroy, and do destroy, but of the unseen beauty of life, of the unseen beauty of a higher life, you know nothing. You lost life's secret.
Oscar Wilde
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Oscar Wilde
Somehow everything I own smells of you, and for the tiniest moment it's all not true
Snow Patrol
I can't even remember the first time I saw a porno. I presume I must have been shocked, frightened even, but after watching another and another and another they sort of blend into nothingness.
Louise O'Neill
…only then did I wake out of the book.
John McGahern
Prayer is the soul's sincere desire. Your desire is your prayer. It comes out of your deepest needs and it reveals the things you want in life.
Joseph Murphy
Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.
Oscar Wilde
A bird in The Strand is worth two in Shepherds Bush
Spike Milligan
The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less.
Brendan Behan
Getting there, that's what's important even if you can't get back.
Thomas O'Malley
I'm trying to make some sense out of the phrase "Everything happens for a reason," and I think I've figured out what the reason is - to pissed me off.
Cecelia Ahern
The sarcasm made a slight whistling noise as it flew over Loafers' head.
Eoin Colfer
I can smite you " Nick grumbled. "Anytime I like.
Sarah Rees Brennan
Oh, my dear, if you only knew how strange is the matter regarding which I am here, it is you who would laugh. I have learned not to think little of any one's belief, no matter how strange it may be. I have tried to keep an open mind, and it is not the ordinary things of life that could close it, but the strange things, the extraordinary things, the things that make one doubt if they be mad or sane.
Bram Stoker
But somehow, I feel sure that if I lived in the country for six months, I should become so unsophisticated that no one would take the slightest notice of me.
Oscar Wilde