Quote by J.G. Farrell Download Open image ““Surely there’s no need to abandon one’s reason simply because one is in Ireland.”” — J.G. Farrell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“There's no sense to being Irish unless you know the world's going to break your heart.” — Thomas Adcock Copy Share Image
“Irish people have been leaving their homes in search of better lives for many, many years. We're very good at it.” — Matthew Quick Copy Share Image
“But outside of the North of Ireland there is no religious question, and in the North it is fundamentally more political than religious.” — James Stephens Copy Share Image
“I don't hate the English and I don't know do I love the Irish. But I love him. I'm sure of that now. And… — Jamie O'Neill Copy Share Image
“We Irish know how to make the most of the times of plenty, for sure enough they'll be famine again.” — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
“I seriously believe that you will retard the course of civilisation in Ireland by preventing the Irish people from having one good look at… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“I'm returning to England because the reason I stayed away no longer exists, and a reason to return has unexpectedly presented itself.” — Sylvia Day Copy Share Image
“Some problems—take Ireland—were insoluble, but you would never get the Americans to admit anything was insoluble.” — John le Carré Copy Share Image
“Dublin was an English city, one of the loveliest. The most Irish thing about it was the shifting drab flow of the poor people” — Jan Morris Copy Share Image
“...to be Irish is to know the world will break your heart before you are thirty.” — Virginia Henley Copy Share Image
“If there were only three Irishmen in the world you'd find two of them in a corner talking about the other.” — Brandan Araoz Maria Copy Share Image
“if you were adventurous, scoop out the fragrant, heavenly, alarming flesh of the durian.” — J.G. Farrell Copy Share Image
“And everyone would climb the stairs chuckling to their rooms and dream of aces and knaves and a supply of trumps that would last… — J.G. Farrell Copy Share Image
“For Dupigny a nation resembled a very primitive human being: this human being consisted of, simply, an appetite and some sort of mechanism for satisfying the appetite. In the case of a nation the appetite was usually, if not quite invariably, economic … (now and again the national vanity which at intervals gripped nations like France and Britain would compel… — J.G. Farrell Copy Share
“For a day or two Fleury became quite active. He had his book about the advance of civilization in India to consider and this was one reason why he had taken an interest in the behaviour of the Collector. He asked a great number of questions and even bought a notebook to record pertinent information. "Why, if the Indian people… — J.G. Farrell Copy Share
“What an advantage that knowledge can be stored in books! The knowledge lies there like hermetically sealed provisions waiting for the day when you… — J.G. Farrell Copy Share Image
“We look on past ages with condescension, as a mere preparation for us…but what if we are a mere after-glow of them?” — J.G. Farrell Copy Share Image
“It is distressing to have to act under the impulsive orders of someone who, in a situation which concerns you deeply, does not know… — J.G. Farrell Copy Share Image
“Walter, overhearing this, frowned at Dupigny, not because he disbelieved this story, but to indicate that he should speak guardedly in front of the… — J.G. Farrell Copy Share Image
“It seems that’s there a ghastly Darwinian principle of economics known as the Law of Substitution which declares, more or less, that “the cheapest… — J.G. Farrell Copy Share Image
“Why do people insist on defending their ideas and opinions with such ferocity, as if defending honour itself? What could be easier to change… — J.G. Farrell Copy Share Image
“I read somewhere that the boatman who rowed King William back across the river after the Battle of the Boyne is supposed to have… — J.G. Farrell Copy Share Image
“explained that the Committee for International Understanding, with Europe crumbling about it, had closed down in 1940, naturally dismayed by the amount of misunderstanding… — J.G. Farrell Copy Share Image
