Arthur Joyce Lunel Cary (7 December 1888 – 29 March 1957) was an Irish novelist.
Where can one find a profounder desolation than in the poor child who has lost its mother?
People don't use their eyes. They never see a bird, they see a sparrow. They never see a tree, they see a birch. They see concepts.
All art is bad, but modern art is the worst.
Nothing like poetry when you lie awake at night. It keeps the old brain limber. It washes away the mud and sand that keeps on blocking up the bends. Like waves to make the pebbles dance on my old floors. And turn them into rubies and jacinths; or at any rate, good imitations.
A world in everlasting conflict between the new idea and the old allegiances, new arts and new inventions against the old establishment.
I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.
It is the tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know - and the less a man knows, the more sure he is that he knows everything.
The will is never free - it is always attached to an object, a purpose. It is simply the engine in the car - it can't steer
When a woman gets the idea of justice, there's no teaching her any sense.
Throughout the play everything possible was done to show the virtue, innocence and helplessness of the poor, and the abandoned cruelty, the heartless self-indulgence of the rich.
To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius.
God is a character, a real and consistent being, or He is nothing. If God did a miracle He would deny His own nature and the universe would simply blow up, vanish, become nothing.
The only good government. . . Is a bad one in a hell of a fright.
I had from childhood not only the experience of love and truth common to all family life, but the idea of them embodied in the person of Jesus, a picture always present to our imagination as well as our feelings.
Sara could commit adultery at one end and weep for her sins at the other, and enjoy both operations at once.
Remember I'm an artist. And you know what that means in a court of law. Next worst to an actress
Life would die without poets, and democracy must have its spellbinders.
I write the big scenes first, that is, the scenes that carry the meaning of the book, the emotional experience.
A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments.
Old men when they begin to hear the last trumpet, on the morning breeze, often have a kind of absent-minded smile; like people listening. And their smiles are just politeness.