Religion dies hard in the Irish.

There is an Irish way of paying compliments as though they were irresistible truths which makes what would otherwise be an impertinence delightful.

Drawbacks are good when you are on holiday. If the holiday were too good you might not want to go home again.

O, the red rose may be fair, And the lily statelier; But my shamrock, one in three Takes the very heart of me!

Irish people have a trick of over-statement, at which one ceases to wince as one grows older.

It is a horrible demoralizing thing to be a lawyer. You look for such low motives in everyone and everything.

Often our bad moments are self-propelled ... And the drama is almost exclusively within our heads and hearts.