The Irish are often nervous about having the appropriate face for the occasion. They have to be happy at weddings, which is a strain, so they get depressed; they have to be sad at funerals, which is easy, so they get happy. |
The most moving thing in a speech is always the logic. It is never flowery and flourishes. It is not sentimental exhortation, it is never the faux poetry we're all subjected to these days. |
TV gives everyone an image, but radio gives birth to a million images in a million brains. |
Wit penetrates; humor envelops. Wit is a function of verbal intelligence; humor is imagination operating on good nature. |
Without substance, the speech will perish, |
You don't have to be old in America to say of a world you lived in: That world is gone. |