“The Irish ‘peasant’ is the child of time. He is its guardian and its slave. He will preserve for centuries dull and foolish habits that those who neither love nor fear time or change will quickly cast aside; but he… — Séan O'FaoláIn Copy Share
“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 that those who neither love nor fear time or change will quickly cast aside; but he will also preserve dear, ancient habits that like wine and ivory grow more beautiful and precious with age, all jumbled… — Séan O'FaoláIn Copy Share
“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
