Shillelagh Travel Quotes

#1. There is no such thing as too much swearing. Swearing is just a piece of linguistic mechanics. The words in-between are the clever ones.

Peter Capaldi

#2. Two years before, when the riots started, the media had had a field day, but now people discussed them less and less ... in fact the media's attitude had changed over the last few months. No one talked about violence in the banlieues or race riots anymore. That was all passed over in silence.

Michel Houellebecq

#3. I wouldn't exactly describe her as strictly beautiful. She knocked me out, though.

J.D. Salinger

#4. Champagne is the only drink that leaves a woman still beautiful after drinking it.

Madame De Pompadour

#5. My success set me up for life, and it meant that I could retire from the music industry at 27 to spend time with my newborn daughter and my wife. My time away from the spotlight allowed me to rediscover my love for music, and I'm doing it for me now and no one else.

Rick Astley

#6. True heroism consists of being superior to the ills of life, in whatever shape they may challenge to the combat.' Napoleon on board HMS Northumberland, 1815

Andrew Roberts

#7. On the heights, all paths are paved with daggers.

Robert Jordan

#8. Love is a deception that gives the illusion that we're not alone in this world. But we are. We are so terribly alone.

S.L. Boo

#9. As if, within their high-pitched cries and songs, there are coded threats. 'Sometimes you get what you want and sometimes you get what you need and sometimes you get what you get.' Extract

Marian Keyes

#10. There is no rapture in the love which is prompted by esteem; such affection is lasting, not passionate.

Victor Hugo

#11. Hard times are coming, when we'll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine real grounds for hope.

Ursula K. Le Guin