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Chaos is the first condition. Order is the first law. Continuity is the first reflection. Quietude is the first happiness.
— James Stephens
A poem is a revelation, and it is by the brink of running water that poetry is revealed to the mind.
— James Stephens
I would think Until I found Something I can never find; - Something Lying On the ground, In the bottom Of my mind.
— James Stephens
A secret is a weapon and a friend.
— James Stephens
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
Women and birds are able to see without turning their heads, and that is indeed a necessary provision for they are both surrounded by enemies.
— James Stephens
I hear a sudden cry of pain! There is a rabbit in a snare.
— James Stephens
The toxin generates the anti-toxin. The end lies concealed in the beginning. All bodies grow around a skeleton. Life is a petticoat about death.
— James Stephens
Men come of age at sixty, women at fifteen.
— James Stephens
Curiosity will conquer fear more than bravery will.
— James Stephens
Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
— James Stephens
When a woman speaks to a man about the love she feels for another man, she is not liked.
— James Stephens
Quietness is the beginning of virtue. To be silent is to be beautiful. Stars do not make a noise.
— James Stephens
The trouble of the king becomes the trouble of the subject, for how shall we live if judgement is withheld, or if faulty decisions are promulgated?
— James Stephens
By having much, you are fitted to have more.
— James Stephens
A sword, a spade, and a thought should never be allowed to rust.
— James Stephens
You must be fit to give before you can be fit to receive.
— James Stephens
Under all wrongdoing lies personal vanity or the feeling that we are endowed and privileged beyond our fellows.
— James Stephens
To understand the theory which underlies all things is not sufficient. Theory is but the preparation for practice.
— James Stephens
A woman is a branchy tree and man a singing wind; and from her branches carelessly he takes what he can find.
— James Stephens
God did not need any assistance, but man did; bitterly he wanted it, and the giving of such assistance was the proper business of a woman.
— James Stephens
What the heart knows today the head will understand tomorrow
— James Stephens
A Leprecaun without a pot of gold is like a rose without perfume, a bird without a wing, or an inside without an outside.
— James Stephens
It is by love alone that we understand anything
— James Stephens
Women are stronger than men - they do not die of wisdom.
— James Stephens
We are washed both on coming into the world and on going out of it, and we take no pleasure from the first washing nor any profit from the last.
— James Stephens
Finality is death. Perfection is finality. Nothing is perfect. There are lumps in it, said the Philosopher.
— James Stephens
Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
— James Stephens
The mysteries of death and birth occupy women far more than is the case with men, to whom political and mercantile speculations are more congenial.
— James Stephens
Can a spear divine the Eternal Will?
— James Stephens
