Celibacy bestows on a man the qualified freedom of a besieged city where one sometimes has to eat rats. — Sean O Faolain Copy Share Image
Pessimists are usually kind. The gay, bubbling over, have no time for the pitiful. — Sean O Faolain Copy Share Image
“The upshot of it has been that the spirit of the Past is now widely regarded amongst us as a purely immaterial force pumping… — Seán Ó Faoláin Copy Share Image
If we turn to early Irish literature, as we naturally may, to see what sort of people the Irish were in the infancy of… — Sean O Faolain Copy Share Image
The framework of the artist's ideas is clearly only that which he is forever seeking for universality, and must be far wider than the… — Sean O Faolain Copy Share Image
“Ireland had clung to her youth, indeed to her childhood, longer and more tenaciously than any other country in Europe, resisting Change, Alteration, Reconstruction… — Seán Ó Faoláin Copy Share Image
In the presence of great music we have no alternative but to live nobly. — Sean O Faolain Copy Share Image
Celibacy bestows on a man the qualified freedom of a besieged city where one sometimes has to eat rats. — Sean O Faolain Copy Share Image
