Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" My mouth is full of decayed teeth and my soul of decayed ambitions. "

Related Quotes:

" Ireland sober is Ireland stiff. "

" Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America. "

" My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire. "

" Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance. "

" Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why. "

" God spoke to you by so many voices but you would not hear. "

" Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality. "

" Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not. "

" I fear those big words which make us so unhappy. "

" It is a symbol of Irish art. The cracked looking-glass of a servant. "

" I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day. "

" Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion. "

" A corpse is meat gone bad. Well and what's cheese? Corpse of milk. "

" The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works. "

" If Ireland is to become a new Ireland she must first become European. "

" Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize. "

" No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination. "

" A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery. "

" The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails. "

" Nations have their ego, just like individuals. "

" Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age. "

" I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's immortality. "

" The men that is now is only all palaver and what they can get out of you. "

" A nation is the same people living in the same place. "

" Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow. "

" When I die Dublin will be written in my heart. "

" There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being. "

" He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible. "

" You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman. "

" The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts. "