Quotes by Irish/Ireland authors (page 4)

"One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good"

Jonathan Swift, Writer

"There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being"

James Joyce, Novelist

"My mouth is full of decayed teeth and my soul of decayed ambitions"

James Joyce, Novelist

"I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction"

James Joyce, Novelist

"No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination"

James Joyce, Novelist

"Nations have their ego, just like individuals"

James Joyce, Novelist

"That's how it is on this bitch of an earth"

Samuel Beckett, Playwright

"Just under the surface I shall be, all together at first, then separate and drift, through all the earth and perhaps in the end through a cliff into the sea, something of me. A ton of worms in an acre, that is a wonderful thought, a ton of worms, I believe it"

Samuel Beckett, Playwright

"James Joyce was a synthesizer, trying to bring in as much as he could. I am an analyzer, trying to leave out as much as I can"

Samuel Beckett, Playwright

"In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness"

Samuel Beckett, Playwright

"The presidency is an independent office and the Irish people whom I appreciate so much and I take with such responsibility have given a very clear mandate on a very clear set of ideas to me, as the ninth president"

Michael D. Higgins, Politician

"The mandate I have received and for which I will speak with heart and head to implement over the next seven years had its four pillars - an inclusive citizenship, equality and participation and respect in a creative society creating an excellence in everything we Irish do"

Michael D. Higgins, Politician

"Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal; a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all"

William Butler Yeats, Poet

"Those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love"

William Butler Yeats, Poet

"I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well"

Oliver Goldsmith, Poet

"Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes"

Oliver Goldsmith, Poet

"Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves"

Oliver Goldsmith, Poet

"You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements"

William Butler Yeats, Poet

"Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!"

William Butler Yeats, Poet

"Come away, O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand"

William Butler Yeats, Poet

"Those songs are about getting out; they're not about getting out of family. It wasn't about how family life was curtailing because I didn't know family life"

Bob Geldof, Actor

"You can't trust politicians. It doesn't matter who makes a political speech. It's all lies - and it applies to any rock star who wants to make a political speech as well"

Bob Geldof, Actor

"Music is still above all else the thing that does it for me"

Bob Geldof, Actor

"It's really very simple, Governor. When people are hungry they die. So spare me your politics and tell me what you need and how you're going to get it to these people"

Bob Geldof, Actor

"Irish Americans are no more Irish than Black Americans are Africans"

Bob Geldof, Actor

"I never had a real job either. I sort of fell out of school and ended up playing guitar"

Vivian Campbell, Musician

"If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks"

Brendan Behan, Dramatist

"I am a daylight atheist"

Brendan Behan, Dramatist

"Those who plot the destruction of others often perish in the attempt"

Thomas Moore, Poet

"Humility, that low, sweet root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot"

Thomas Moore, Poet

"I shook hands with a friendly Arab. I still have my right arm to prove it"

Spike Milligan, Comedian

"Are you going to come quietly, or do I have to use earplugs?"

Spike Milligan, Comedian

"One man's transparency is another's humiliation"

Gerry Adams, Politician

"The wrong way always seems the more reasonable"

George A. Moore, Novelist

"The cry of equality pulls everyone down"

Iris Murdoch, Author

"Difficulties are just things to overcome, after all"

Ernest Shackleton, Explorer

"He is every other inch a gentleman"

Rebecca West, Author

"Of course the EU and member states must work to ensure that people moving from one country to another understand their obligations and their rights in areas like health, road safety and further education"

John Bruton, Politician

"In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all"

Iris Murdoch, Author

"We had seen God in His splendors, heard the text that Nature renders. We had reached the naked soul of man"

Ernest Shackleton, Explorer

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