It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody. |
Never throw stones at your mother, You'll be sorry for it when she's dead, Never throw stones at your mother, Throw bricks at your father instead. (The Hostage) |
New York is my Lourdes, where I go for spiritual refreshment... a place where you're least likely to be bitten by a wild goat. |
Ninety-seven saint days a year wouldn't affect the theater, but two Yom Kippurs would ruin it. |
Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis. |
The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin paper with a bit of mattress stuffing in it, if you could get a match, was as good a smoke as I ever tasted. |
The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin paper with a bit of mattress stuffing in it, if you could get a match, was as good a smoke as I ever tasted. |
The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less. |
The English and Americans dislike only some" Irish - the same Irish that the Irish themselves detest, Irish writers - the ones that think. |
There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary. |
There's no one, no one, loves you like yourself. |
To get enough to eat was regarded as an achievement. To get drunk was a victory. |
What the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides. |
When I came back to Dublin I was court marshaled in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence |