Pubs Quotes by J. P. Donleavy

Food Throwers: Begun usually by estranged couples, once this victual flinging starts, everyone will do it...Should your dinner party have become an out of…

— J. P. Donleavy

I remember one letter from a girl in a midwestern town who read one of my books and thought she had discovered it- that…

— J. P. Donleavy

Blessed are they who in this sea of frailty, climb aboard a piece of ass as it floats by.

— J. P. Donleavy

The best book of the year, Grobel's writing is quite marvelous. The Hustons reads vividly, just like one of John Huston's great films.

— J. P. Donleavy

Expect the worst And that's what You'll get Only it will be Much worse.

— J. P. Donleavy

When I die, I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin. I wonder…

— J. P. Donleavy

I'm all for Christianity, but insolence must be put down.

— J. P. Donleavy

To marry the Irish is to look for poverty.

— J. P. Donleavy

The inhabitants will always see both sides of an argument so long as it can result in a fight.

— J. P. Donleavy

When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

— J. P. Donleavy

Sometimes you write and you find yourself almost wondering how it will turn out. I don't think every writer sort of almost admits that…

— J. P. Donleavy

And no. I must not go on thinking. For the pain will never go away. You just go on and live. In the dust…

— J. P. Donleavy

On Being Old. It's not nice but take comfort that you won't stay that way for ever.

— J. P. Donleavy

Rid the mind of knowledge when looking for pleasure. Or start thinking and find a lot of pain.

— J. P. Donleavy

I got disappointed in human nature as well and gave it up because I found it too much like my own.

— J. P. Donleavy