Susan Mitchell Quotes

#1. It's possible to keep drawing this moment out, any moment, hammering it thinner and thinner like beaten gold, like iced chablis, whipping it, whipping it to cheap perfume, each word blown to aneurysm. - Author: Susan Mitchell

#2. There has been no lack of courage in Ireland; there never is, but even our courage has a fatal quality. - Author: Susan Mitchell

#3. There is blood in Mr. Ervine's 'Carson'; he knows nothing about Sir Edward Carson, of course, but his teeth are firmly fixed in the calf of someone's leg, all the time, and he draws blood without a doubt. - Author: Susan Mitchell

#4. Sometimes it seems your ever-increasing list of things to do can leave you feeling totally undone. - Author: Susan Mitchell

#5. Ireland regards sex, when she regards it at all, with an entirely primitive and practical eye. - Author: Susan Mitchell

#6. In my skimmings over fiction I cannot recall any writer so continuously implicated in his own work as George Moore. - Author: Susan Mitchell

#7. Motherhood: the days are long, the years are short. - Author: Susan Mitchell

#8. Perhaps it's true, my happiest moments are the anticipation of other moments still to come. - Author: Susan Mitchell

#9. [On writer George Moore:] ... I grew curious about Moore. Yet when at the rehearsal of 'Countess Cathleen' in some dark by-way of London, I was told he was present, I cannot recall any form, only an irritation in the dusty atmosphere. - Author: Susan Mitchell

#10. We in Ireland are gifted beyond most peoples with a talent for acting, and in Dublin especially, while scorning culture, which indeed we have not got, we are possessed of a most futile and diverting cleverness. - Author: Susan Mitchell