Irish Author Quotes

In the sublime imagination of the Beatific Vision, he catches a hint of a deeper reality, but why, he asks, this distinction between time and eternity? Can the apprehension of the Infinite Good be conditioned by the clock? Oh, for a knowledge undimensioned, untimed, effect of no cause, cause of no effect!

Sister Nivedita

History, in the end, is only another kind of story, and stories are different from the truth. The truth is messy and chaotic and all over the place. Often it just doesn't make sense. Stories make things make sense, but the way they do that is to leave out anything that doesn't fit. And often that is quite a lot.

Paul Murray (author)

No one knows what is in him till he tries, and many would never try if they were not forced to.

Basil W. Maturin

Didn't I seize the fire of ideas and make them leap, tear, fly, sing

Where am I coming from? Where am I going? A fusillade of question marks.

The young don't know what age is, and the old forget what youth was.

Seumas MacManus

Here is a truth, a truth by which to live: there is hope. There is always hope. If we choose to abandon it, our souls will turn to ash and blow away.

John Connolly (author)

And your police are like our police in the Realm?' Blue said. 'They flog you if you do something wrong and cut off your hand if you're caught stealing?' No, they don't do that, Henry said uncertainly. Why not? It's pretty silly not to, isn't it?' Blue said.

James Herbert Brennan

To grow
a second tongue, as
harsh a humiliation
as twice to be born.

Ah! my heart is weary waiting,
Waiting for the May:
Waiting for the pleasant rambles
Where the fragrant hawthorn brambles,
Where the woodbine alternating,
Scent the dewy way;
Ah! my heart is weary, waiting,
Waiting for the May.

Denis Florence MacCarthy

When Spring came on with fresh delight
To cheer the soul, and charm the sight
While every easy breezes, softer rain
And warmer suns salute the plain

Temperamentally, the writer exists on happenings, on contacts, conflicts, action and reaction, speed, pressure, tension. Were he acontemplative purely, he would not write.

Elizabeth Bowen

Each lost soul will be a hell unto itself, the boundless fire raging in its very vitals.

Nor elves, nor fays, nor magic charm, Have pow'r, or will, to work us harm; For those who dare the truth to tell, Fays, elves, and fairies, wish them well.

Maria Edgeworth

There was a most ingenious architect who had contrived a new method for building houses, by beginning at the roof, and working downward to the foundation.

I think I only appear smart by staying quiet as often as possible.

An Irishman I am, begora! With a heart and a spirit on
me not crushed be a hundred years of oppression. I'll be getting me
shillelagh out next, wait'll you see.

Martin McDonagh

Find earth where grows no weed, and you may find a heart wherein no error grows.

James Sheridan Knowles

Meningitis. It was a word you had to bite on to say it. It had a fright and a hiss in it.

Well, there's nothink lower than Nature, An She Goes As 'Igh As 'Eaven!

Clotilde Graves

Remember,even if we can't see them, those we love are always with us.

Your guardian angel loves you and you are precious to them - you are the most important person in the world to them and, they have to do everything they can for you.

What's lost upon the roundabouts we pulls up on the swings!

Patrick R. Chalmers

Not she with trait'rous kiss her Saviour stung, Not she denied him with unholy tongue; She, while apostles shrank, could danger brave, Last at his cross and earliest at his grave.

Eaton Stannard Barrett

Nature-study if it is to be possible must begin, and if it is to be fruitful must end, in something which is not strictly the study of nature, but which we call Philosophy.

T. W. Rolleston