Quotes by Irish Authors - Page 69

Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.
George Moore
Don't hate me forever, Arty," whispered Holly. "I couldn't bear that.
Eoin Colfer
The English novels are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed. But one should not be too severe on them. They show a want of knowledge that must be the result of years of study.
Oscar Wilde
I see foxes often, but always they are crossing fallow fields in the distance. Gold flecks on faraway expanses of green. Magnetic to the meandering eye. Enigmatic, unreachable.
Sara Baume
Could you bring me to Rita’s house before we go to the airport?” I ask. “There’s one last thing I need to ask her to do.” “That is on the other side of the river,” says Ethan.“I know. But I need to see her. Please, I’ll be eternally grateful.” He doesn’t say anything, but instead puts the car in gear and starts the engine. After we are driving for about two minutes he asks. “How grateful?” Ah, I see the old Ethan hasn’t disappeared then. I smile and lean over to place a light peck on his cheek. “This grateful,” I say to him.“Hmm, I think you can do better than that,” he chides in good humor.“You’re driving,” is all I say in reply.“I can pull over,” he answers smartly.
L.H. Cosway
Sometimes it's like: If something terrifies you, you should totally do it BECAUSE it terrifies you. And then you'll do it and you'll realise what you're capable of.
Jonathan Saccone-Joly
Friendship...is not something you learn in school,but if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship you really haven't learned anything.
Oscar Wilde
The creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day.
Samuel Beckett
On a waste place strewn with bricks in the outskirts of a town twilight was falling. A star or two appeared over the smoke, and distant windows lit mysterious lights. The stillness deepened and the loneliness. Then all the outcast things that are silent by day found voices.
Lord Dunsany
It's not being in the past, but accepting who we were and being who we are.
Roisin Turner
Have not women preferred hatred to indifference, and the reputation of witchcraft, with all its penalties, to absolute insignificance?
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
It was only when the salt water of my tears ran into my cuts and made them stingthat I discovered I was crying.
Marian Keyes
We are not meant to know the time or the nature of our deaths (for all of us secretly hope that we may be immortal).
John Connolly
I've always loved strong women, which is lucky for me because once you're over about twenty-five there is no other kind. Women blow my mind. The stuff that routinely gets done to them would make most men curl up and die, but women turn to steel and keep on coming. Any man who claims he's not into strong women is fooling himself mindless; he's into strong women who know how to pout prettily and put on baby voices, and who will end up keeping his balls in her makeup bags.
Tana French
There were moments when he looked on evil simply as a mode through which he could realize his conception of the beautiful.
Oscar Wilde
Dying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one's heart; but death is a splendid thing—a warfare accomplished, a beginning all over again, a triumph. You can always see that in their faces.
George Bernard Shaw
I felt that my views and philosophies had been changed overnight. The philosophies that i had gladly carved in stone, recited and danced upon.
Cecelia Ahern
The difference between weakness and wickedness is much less than people suppose and the consequences are nearly always the same.
Lady Marguerite Blessington
... desperate times required judicious risk-taking.
Eoin Colfer
All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be inartistic.
Oscar Wilde
Life makes fools of us all sooner or later. But keep your sense of humor and you'll at least be able to take your humiliations with some measure of grace. In the end, you know, it's our own expectations that crush us." -- from Skippy Dies
Paul Murray
All the drawing lacksis the final touch: To addeyes to the dragon
Diane Duane
I don’t see Number Four though—oh.” Number Four, wearing an unflattering chartreuse jacket, was sitting alone on the chewed-up grass, despondently licking his testicles. “Hmm, I don’t know, Bel . .
Paul Murray
You make a good point,' Fletcher conceded. 'See, there's a reason why you're the girl and I'm the boy. You think about things while I...''Don't?''Exactly,' he said happily.
Derek Landy
One by one they were all becoming shades. Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.
James Joyce
I loved my mother too,' I said. 'I still do. That's the thing - it never goes away, even if the person does.
Anna Carey
Author? Author? Did you write these legs?''Yes."'Well, I don't like dem. I don't like 'em at all at all. I could ha' writted better legs meself.
Spike Milligan
What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde
I said: 'A line will take us hours maybe;Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought,Our stitching and unstitching has been naught.
W.B. Yeats
The nature of humanity, its essence, is to feel another's pain as one's own, and to act to take that pain away,. There is a nobility in compassion, a beauty in empathy, a grace in forgiveness.
John Connolly
What's that supposed to mean? A wolf's head on a stick. Big wolf barbecue tonight? Bring your own wolf?
Eoin Colfer
If they should only be ill,' she said, 'there would be so many little things we could do for them. It does seem in a kind of a way an opportunity. I often think it is only when a man is ill that he understands what a woman means in his life.
Elizabeth Bowen
I believe that our lives, just like fairy tales - the stories that have been written by us humans, through our own experiences of living - will always have a Hero and a Heroine, a Fairy Godmother and a Wicked Witch.
Lucinda Riley
But then one regrets the loss even of one's worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They are such an essential part of one's personality.
Oscar Wilde
My path will weaveThe way you sayThere is no doubtYou'll create the way
William O'Brien
The achievement of maturity, psychologically speaking, might be said to be the realization and acceptance that we simply cannot live independently from the world, and so we must live within it, with whatever compromises that might entail.
Paul Murray
It is necessary to write, that much is clear, and to write in a way quite unlike any way which I have employed before.
Iris Murdoch
Life is a series of moments and moments are always changing, just like thoughts, negative and positive.
Cecelia Ahern
Just let them sit in the goddam sun. But the world won't let them because there's nothing more dangerous than letting old farts sit in the sun. They might be thinking. Same thing with kids. Keep 'em busy or they might start thinking.
Frank McCourt
for I determined that if Death came he should find me ready
Bram Stoker
She [88yo Mrs Fitzgerald] crossed herself and patted my arm. "And you're after coming all the way from England to find out who done it? Aren't you great? God bless you, young fella." "The old heretic," I said, when we got outside. Mrs. Fitzgerald had cheered up my day immensely. "I hope I have that much zip when I'm eighty-eight
Tana French
Albeit nurtured in democracy, And liking best that state republican Where every man is Kinglike and no manIs crowned above his fellows, yet I see,Spite of this modern fret for Liberty, Better the rule of One, whom all obey, Than to let clamorous demagogues betrayOur freedom with the kiss of anarchy.Wherefore I love them not whose hands profane Plant the red flag upon the piled-up street For no right cause, beneath whose ignorant reignArts, Culture, Reverence, Honor, all things fade, Save Treason and the dagger of her trade, Or Murder with his silent bloody fee.
Oscar Wilde
R.I.P.Tom Conlon O'Rourke.Not Dead, just Sleeping.
Spike Milligan
When we are happy, we are always good, but when we are good, we are not always happy.
Oscar Wilde
At every single moment of one's life one is going to be no less than what one has been.
Oscar Wilde
The effect of liberty on individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do before we risk congratulations.
Edmund Burke
You are mine, you shall be mine, you and I are one for ever.
J. Sheridan Le Fanu