Courses Quotes by Susan Mitchell

Ireland regards sex, when she regards it at all, with an entirely primitive and practical eye.

— Susan Mitchell

Sometimes it seems your ever-increasing list of things to do can leave you feeling totally undone.

— Susan Mitchell

There is blood in Mr. Ervine's 'Carson'; he knows nothing about Sir Edward Carson, of course, but his teeth are firmly fixed in the…

— Susan Mitchell

[On writer George Moore:] ... I grew curious about Moore. Yet when at the rehearsal of 'Countess Cathleen' in some dark by-way of London,…

— Susan Mitchell

We in Ireland are gifted beyond most peoples with a talent for acting, and in Dublin especially, while scorning culture, which indeed we have…

— Susan Mitchell

Perhaps it’s true, my happiest moments are the anticipation of other moments still to come.

— Susan Mitchell

Typing is an essential skill, but it can be painful. Some children just don't know where the letters are. Typing a three-page story, when…

— Susan Mitchell

Our greatest fear is that we will lose the love in our life... that we will be abandoned, left alone, bereaved, misunderstood, deprived, hated…

— Susan Mitchell

in my skimmings over fiction I cannot recall any writer so continuously implicated in his own work as George Moore.

— Susan Mitchell

It's possible to keep drawing this moment out, any moment, hammering it thinner and thinner like beaten gold, like iced chablis, whipping it, whipping…

— Susan Mitchell

Motherhood: the days are long, the years are short.

— Susan Mitchell

There has been no lack of courage in Ireland; there never is, but even our courage has a fatal quality.

— Susan Mitchell