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They took away our land, our language, and our religion; but they could never harness our tongues ...

A man is fortunate if he encounters living examples of vice, as well as of virtue, to inspire him.

Pound notes are the best religion in the world.

I'm a drinker with writing problems.

Most horror movies are certainly that.

One drink is too many for me and a thousand not enough.

Other people's interruptions of your work are relatively insignificant compared with the countless times you interrupt yourself.

Nothing hurts more than the friendly letter that one never got around to writing.

What the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides.

Every cripple has his own way of walking.

Failure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time.

If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks.

There is no human situation so miserable that it cannot be made worse by the presence of a policeman.

There's no one, no one, loves you like yourself.

I saw a notice that said "Drink Canada Dry" and I've just started.

When two men fight over a woman it's the fight they want, not the woman.

If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it.

I ruined my health drinking to other people's.

I am a daylight atheist.

A general and a bit of shooting makes you forget your troubles ... it takes your mind off the cost of living.

Whatever you hold in contempt is your jailer.

Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves.

The English and Americans dislike only some Irish
the same Irish that the Irish themselves detest, Irish writers
the ones that think.

I cannot imagine any crime worse than taking a life, can you? -It'd depend whose life.

God forgive us-but most of us grew up to be the sort of men our mothers warned us against.

I am a drinker with writing problems.

Ah, bless you, Sister, may all your sons be bishops.

There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary.

All publicity is good, except an obituary notice.

To get enough to eat was regarded as an achievement. To get drunk was a victory.

Scream at God if that's the only thing that will get results.

Prostitutes, more than any other profession, help keep American marriages together.

There's no bad publicity except an obituary.

I'm a drinker with a writing problem.

The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you.

What an author likes to write most is his signature on the back of a cheque.

Message? What the hell do you think I am, a bloody postman?

I'm a Communist by day and a Catholic as soon as it gets dark.

The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less.

I wish I'd been a mixed infant.

I am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me.

It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody.

I only take a drink on two occasions - when I'm thirsty and when I'm not.

I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn't make it worse.

A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.

When I'm talking to people I like to stop and quote myself. My quotes have a way of spicing up conversation.

Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day.

You made one mistake. You married me.

The only thing I envy in young people is their livers.

That you, sister. May you be the mother of a bishop.

New York is my Lourdes, where I go for spiritual refreshment ... a place where you're least likely to be bitten by a wild goat.

The terrorist is the one with the small bomb.

No man can discover his own talents.

The sun was in mind to come out but having a look at the weather it was in lost heart and went back again.

Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in.

Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.

Ninety-seven saint days a year wouldn't affect the theater, but two Yom Kippurs would ruin it.

An author's first duty is to let down his country.

I never felt so much at home as I do in New York. I must be a devil.

It is a good deed to forget a poor joke.

He was born an Englishman and remained one for years.

A pedestrian ought to be legally allowed to toss at least one hand grenade at a motorist every day.