Historical Irish Romance Quotes

#1. Human beings do not like to look squarely into the face of tragedy. Gloom is unpopular.

Saul Alinsky

#2. I was born Katie O'Reilly," she began. "Poor Irish, but proud of it. I boarded the Titanic at Queenstown as a third class passenger with nothing more than the clothes on my back. And the law at my heels." Titanic Rhapsody

Jina Bacarr

#3. Katie shook her head in dismay. "I thought being poor was the worst thing that could happen to a girl."
"No, Katie," the countess said in a clear voice. "The worst thing is to be in love with one man and have to marry another."
Katie O'Reilly to the Countess of Marbury in "Titanic Rhapsody

Jina Bacarr

#4. It's odd, but even when I am in pain I have a sexual urge. Perhaps especially when I am in pain I have a sexual urge. Or should I say that I am more attracted, more fascinated by women who cause me pain?

Jun'ichiro Tanizaki

#5. Skip your fancy talk, Captain Lord Blackthorn. If I do your bidding, and I'm still discussing that with the Almighty, it will only be to save my arse." Katie O'Reilly to Captain Lord Jack Blackthorn in "Titanic Rhapsody

Jina Bacarr

#6. I listened to the students on campus in Plymouth, worried about their steadily deepening debts and how on earth they would ever escape them.

Charles Kennedy

#7. If it's only a kiss you want, I can kiss you with my clothes on." Katie O'Reilly to Captain Lord Blackthorn in "Titanic Rhasody.

Jina Bacarr

#8. The peculiar characteristic of classical music is that it is really better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

#9. To describe women, the pen should be dipped in the humid colors of the rainbow, and the paper dried with the dust gathered from the wings of a butterfly.

Denis Diderot

#10. I like my life now," she said. "I don't need it to change."
"But it is changing," Benjamin Stanhope said, "None of us can hold things where we want them to be. It is all slipping and changing, Alice.

Kate Alcott

#11. The power you have over someone who loves you is greater than any other power you'll ever have.

Paullina Simons