Quote by Joseph O'Connor Download Open image ““The English possessed as many words for stealing as the Irish had for seaweed or guilt.”” — Joseph O'Connor ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Such brutishness was beyond the English capacity for tolerance. Especially when the vulgarians in question occupied such lovely lands. So, as they had for… — David E. Stannard Copy Share Image
And in spite of everything, Ireland remains the brain of the Kingdom. The English, judiciously practical and ponderous, furnish the over-stuffed stomach of humanity… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“The same unquestioning certainty given to English rain and Irish trouble.” — Laura Lee Guhrke Copy Share Image
“He said you have to be on the side of the losers, the people with bad lungs. You have to be with those who are homesick and can't breathe very well in Ireland. He said it makes no sense to hold a stone in your hand. A lot more people would be homeless if you speak the killer language. He… — Hugo Hamilton Copy Share
“A proper Irishman always does what a lady asks him. Sure an' it's been the ruin av us. We're at the mercy av the… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“A real Irishman will give everything of himself--except that kernel of his soul which makes him a mystery to other peoples.” — Jim Tully Beggars Abroad Copy Share Image
“It is a strange fact, but it is unquestionably true, that almost any English intellectual would feel more ashamed of standing to attention during… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The behaviour of the English people I had run into was making it very difficult to nail down a theory that the reason my trip so far had been such a bizarre success, was that Irish people were crazy. One Englishman had spent a morning on the telephone trying to organise a helicopter to take me out to an island,… — Tony Hawks Copy Share
“But it was always thus with Irishmen. Never, since the start of the world, has one of them taken a woman's sensible advice when… — Eddie Lenihan 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
“It is unquestionably true that almost any English intellectual would feel more ashamed of standing to attention during 'God save the King' than of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
It is not a matter of ends justifying means: but of the creation of new means and new ends. — Joseph O'Connor Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“...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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Dublin was turning into Disneyland with super-pubs, a Purgatory open till five in the morning. — Joseph O'Connor Copy Share Image
(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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Politics' the polite word for antediluvian prejudices, the rags put on by enmity and tribal resentment. — Joseph O'Connor Copy Share Image
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