Austin O'Malley

Humor wades across a brook, wit jumps over it.

— Austin O'Malley

Revenge is often like biting a dog because the dog bit you.

— Austin O'Malley

If you are ignorant enough, you can walk like a cat on the slippery roof-ridge of danger.

— Austin O'Malley

The monk that invented gunpowder did as much to stop war as did all the sermons of his brethren.

— Austin O'Malley

Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

— Austin O'Malley

Art knows, life applies knowledge; art feels, life acts.

— Austin O'Malley

You can swim in life and seawater, but both are hard to swallow.

— Austin O'Malley

Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.

— Austin O'Malley

It is as easy to give advice to yourself as to others, and as useless.

— Austin O'Malley

Happiness and unhappiness differ as a bucket hammered from gold differs from one pressed in tin ... Each carries the same water.

— Austin O'Malley

The reason we constantly discover new truth in Shakespeare is that his complete understanding of the particular includes the universal.

— Austin O'Malley

The ideal historian goes to the mouth of the tomb, cries: "Lazarus, come forth!" and sets him that was dead for ages,…

— Austin O'Malley

There is a form of literature that is a deed, and a form that is only talk, and the latter passes away…

— Austin O'Malley

Each man's soul is a menagerie where Conscience, the animal-tamer, lives with a collection of wild beasts.

— Austin O'Malley

Death is an antidote for this life, and it makes another more stable form of life which is insoluble in everything.

— Austin O'Malley

The only original part in a work of art is the infusion of the artist's own character, if he has one.

— Austin O'Malley

We smile at the women who are eagerly following the fashions in dress whilst we are as eagerly following the fashions in…

— Austin O'Malley

It is a mean thief or a successful author that plunders the dead.

— Austin O'Malley

True patriotism is a charity so wide that it covers a nation.

— Austin O'Malley

Truth as philosophy is a gas; as art, it is visible steam.

— Austin O'Malley

A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

— Austin O'Malley

Originality in literature is only a new coat of paint on an old house.

— Austin O'Malley

Persecution is as necessary to religion as pruning to an orchard.

— Austin O'Malley

If you have forgotten how to be a child you cannot teach children.

— Austin O'Malley

The fear we throw about danger is always as disproportionate as a paternal shirt on an infant.

— Austin O'Malley

It is easier to prevent thistles and habits than to uproot them.

— Austin O'Malley

When you are dealing with a child, keep all your wits about you, and sit on the floor.

— Austin O'Malley

Love is a boomerang that returns to the thrower's hand.

— Austin O'Malley

When walking through the 'valley of shadows,' remember, a shadow is cast by a Light.

— Austin O'Malley

A sin is nothing but a deordination of reason, but that is enough.

— Austin O'Malley

Those that say they despise riches are saints or liars.

— Austin O'Malley

Those who listen to lies lose the ability to hear the truth.

— Austin O'Malley

God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it.

— Austin O'Malley

Cunning is a short blanket--if you pull it over your face, you expose your feet.

— Austin O'Malley

You cannot build up a character in a solitude; you need a formed character to stand a solitude.

— Austin O'Malley

“Memory is a crazy woman that hoards colored rags and throws away food.”

— Austin O'Malley

A book reviewer is usually a barker before the door of a publisher's circus.

— Austin O'Malley

Wisdom is also a deeper consciousness of ignorance.

— Austin O'Malley

When we pray for death we really desire a fuller life.

— Austin O'Malley

An Irishman can be worried by the consciousness that there is nothing to worry about.

— Austin O'Malley