Wicklow Quotes

#1. If there's no sea-gull there's no meeting, Wicklow had said. No sea-gull means abort. That's my epitaph, thought Barley. 'There was no sea-gull, so he aborted.

John Le Carre

#2. To be honest, I'm a bit of a snob now; give me a Four Seasons anywhere in the world and I'm happy. Also, they've just opened a Ritz-Carlton in County Wicklow, Ireland, which is stunning and has great views.

Joe Elliott

#3. When I was writing The Shadow of the Glen I got more aid than any learning could have given me from a chink in the floor of the old Wicklow house where I was staying, that let me hear what was being said by the servent girls in the kitchen.

John Millington Synge

#4. He was shivering like a Wicklow sheepdog in a snowy yard, though the weather was officially 'clement'.
The first layer of clothing was his jacket, the second his shirt, the third his long-johns, the fourth his share of lice, the fifth his share of fear.

Sebastian Barry

#5. My brother's researched our early family history. He found a letter from a fella who said he used to be in love with my mum.

Paul McCartney

#6. And what does it matter when light enters the room where a child sleeps and the waking mother, opening her eyes, wishes more than anything to be unwakened by what she cannot name?

Mark Strand

#7. The camera never lies, man. I've learned that. If you allow it, it will see right through you, which is kind of cool.

Ramon Rodriguez

#8. If you had the opportunity and some talent, there was no way you couldn't progress, because it was an open market. There was the advertising world, and there was the documentary world.

Richard Donner

#9. Every schoolmaster after the age of forty-nine, is inclined to flatulence is apt to swallow frequently and to puff

Harold Nicolson