“My final thought now is that as in religion and the arts, so in politics; if men do not balance their feelings and intelligence they lose command of both - and worse still, of their object.” — Sean O'Faolain Copy Share Image
“At Harvard I learned most uncomfortably that facts are facts. In Italy I learned that facts are the way you look at them.” — Sean O'Faolain Copy Share Image
“The Irish ‘peasant’ is the child of time. He is its guardian and its slave. He will preserve for centuries dull and foolish habits… — Séan O'FaoláIn Copy Share Image
“My final thought now is that as in religion and the arts, so in politics; if men do not balance their feelings and intelligence… — Sean O'Faolain Copy Share Image
“(the modern writer’s aim is) general revelation by suggestion (and) making a very tiny part do for a whole.” — Sean O'Faolain Copy Share Image
Pessimists are usually kind. The gay, bubbling over, have to time for the pitiful. — Sean O'Faolain Copy Share Image
