Jamie O'Neill Quotes

#1. All love does ever rightly show humanity our tenderness.

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#2. They do say money is the root of all evil."
I thought that was supposed to be the love of money."
There's neat for you. 'Tis them without it that loves it best.

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#3. Grey morning dulled the bay. Banks of clouds, Howth just one more bank, rolled to sea, where other Howths grumbled to greet them. Swollen spumeless tide. Heads that bobbed like floating gulls and gulls that floating bobbed like heads. Two heads. At swim, two boys.

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#4. Hush, said a wave. Rush, said its fellow

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#5. The people shall further be graded according to wealth, and - humorous touch this - the more obviously a man labor, the more stinting shall be his reward; the more he work in the out-of-doors, the thinner his clothing shall be; the more his labor filthy him, the less water shall he have to wash

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#6. It was far too absurd to die of a Tuesday

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#7. My black-headed black-eyed boy. I remember every day of you. How would I forget?

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#8. MacMurrough shifted his gaze from the thick spittle-wet mouth and stared instead through the garden windows. What a dreary drunk he was. He recalled the Spartan custom of inebriating slaves that young men should see how contemptible was drunkenness. Nowadays we leave it to our leshishlashors.

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#9. A wedding left the church and, meeting a funeral, walked three steps with the dead.

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#10. We're extraordinary people. We must do extraordinary things.

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#11. His collar pulled and his tie strained against the intrusion. He blinked. He was irresistibly aware of the oddness of moving things.

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#12. He slept that night thinking of loves and lighthouses. That one love might shine to bring all loves home.

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#13. Damn it all, MacMurrough, are you telling me you are an unspeakable of the Oscar Wilde sort?'
'If you mean am I Irish, the answer is yes.

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#14. Were Wilde's panthers grateful or rebellious? Eventually, of course, one prefers a rebellious bedfellow. But it requires a degree of gratitude to get him into bed in the first place

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#15. The four cautions: Beware a woman in front of you, beware a horse behind of you, beware a cart beside of you, and beware a priest every which way.

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#16. If you carry the weather with you, then character is determined by the prevailing wind

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