WEDDDING TOASTS-IRISH

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke

Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.
Elizabeth Bowen

Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists; though their field-work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language of science.
Robert Graves

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
Edmund Burke

It's like the voice. We don't force a voice which we decide is lower than a lot of others, we teach it to sing in what we call their key, don't we?
Ninette de Valois

Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
Edmund Burke

Malice is only another name for mediocrity.
Patrick Kavanagh

All I ask is the chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Spike Milligan

With the opening of the second decade of the twentieth century it seemed that the stage was set for the last act in an unquestioned evolutionary drama.
Ralph A. Cram

As the 1960s began, a new breed of Hollywood leading lady was emerging. She was elegant, international, and wonderfully comedic.
Maureen O'Hara

It's guarded by units of the British army and I can never come up to this border without experiencing deep feelings of anger and resentment.
Charles Haughey

Our revenge will be the laughter of our children.
Bobby Sands

I am accusing him of stealing my best material, he was a very funny man.
Frank Carson

For example, it's only about 20 years ago the people in that community would have got telephone lines, and it would be only about in the 1950s that electricity came to that part of the world. Television wouldn't have come till 1970.
John McGahern

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.
Elizabeth Bowen

The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense.
George Berkeley

I like to think I'm a listener, and I'm fascinated by observing people - I suppose you just lock that in.
Amanda Burton

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
Jonathan Swift

Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind.
Rebecca West

Nobility, without virtue, is a fine setting without a gem.
Jane Porter

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Lao Tzu

Nobody makes a greater mistake than he who does nothing because he could only do a little.
Edmund Burke

I think I settled on the title before I ever wrote the book.
Frank McCourt

Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.
Spike Milligan

Then I wanted the character to be feminine as opposed to effeminate. Because it's easy to be camp or queen. Anyone can do that. What's difficult is to play feminine.
Cillian Murphy

Those who plot the destruction of others often perish in the attempt.
Thomas Moore

When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into - matrimony.
George Farquhar

You can't expect the press to stand still and not to want to change their minds, and develop something you and I haven't noticed.
Ninette de Valois

And I'd love to work with Robert Altman.
Cillian Murphy

Here Fashion is a despot, and no one dreams of evading its dictates.
Marguerite Gardiner

I really like to have a bit of direction, you know?
Caroline Corr

Is the capacity for cruelty inherent in all of us?
Soledad O'Brien

It is the duty of our men to enroll themselves in the national services. We need all our manpower for defence. For the military and... we need a quarter of a million men.
Eamon de Valera

Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
Edmund Burke

I believe they talked of me, for they laughed consumedly.
George Farquhar

I don't have a burning passion to live in America per se but I would certainly like to work there.
Cillian Murphy

It is obvious that the RUC is no longer accepted as an impartial police force.
Jack Lynch

Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget.
Maria Edgeworth

The true measure of a man is what he would do if he knew he would never be caught.
Lord Kelvin

We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Jonathan Swift

I do like to look at female drummers, because I am one.
Caroline Corr

Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
Malachy McCourt

What the heart knows today the head will understand tomorrow.
James Stephens

When a man is discontented with himself, it has one advantage - that it puts him into an excellent frame of mind for making a bargain.
Laurence Sterne

When I was drumming with Mick Fleetwood I thought I looked half mad. I thought I looked half crazy.
Caroline Corr

And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.
Thomas Moore

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.
Jonathan Swift

I do promotion when it is necessary, but I always want to get back to the music.
Enya

I'll be in Los Angeles for two weeks and I'll have a laugh, get battered and have a buzz, but at the end of the day, I'll go home. It's just me earning a few more stories to tell everyone at home and all.
Colin Farrell

In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature.
Edmund Burke