Excellence Quote by Joseph O'Connor

It is not a matter of ends justifying means: but of the creation of new means and new ends.

— Joseph O'Connor

“The English possessed as many words for stealing as the Irish had for seaweed or guilt.”

— Joseph O'Connor

“That each man is the sum of his choices is nothing less than the truth. And each, perhaps, is also something else.”

— Joseph O'Connor

“...but as his father used to say when he had a few drinks taken, you couldn't expect bloody miracles when you were talking about…

— Joseph O'Connor

The most important thing I would learn in school was that almost everything I would learn in school would be utterly useless. When I…

— Joseph O'Connor

“They had far more in common than either realised. One was born Catholic, the other Protestant. One was born Irish, the other British. But…

— Joseph O'Connor

Dublin was turning into Disneyland with super-pubs, a Purgatory open till five in the morning.

— Joseph O'Connor

(The short story) is a form that has all the power of the novel - some would say more - but none of the…

— Joseph O'Connor

“And if ever you wanted to quit your impatient girl truly, and our little story had to be stored away in a room that's…

— Joseph O'Connor

“Happy as a threaded needle”

— Joseph O'Connor

I feel these days like a very large flamingo. No matter what way I turn, there is always a very large bill.

— Joseph O'Connor

Everything is in the way the material is composed.

— Joseph O'Connor