Arthur Joyce Lunel Cary (7 December 1888 – 29 March 1957) was an Irish novelist.
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.
An old mans memories, like his bones, grow sharp with age and show their true shapes.
Reality is a narrow little house which becomes a prison to those who can't get out of it.
Politics is like navigation in a sea without charts, and wise men live the lives of pilgrims.
Love doesn't grow on trees like apples in Eden - it's something you have to make. And you must use your imagination too.
It was as dark as the inside of a cabinet minister.
Plantie is a very strong Protestant, that is to say, he's against all churches, especially the Protestant: and he thinks a lot of Buddha, Karma and Confucius. He is also a bit of an anarchist and three or four years ago he took up Einstein and vitamins.
A perpetually new and lively world, but a dangerous one, full of tragedy and injustice.
Life would die without poets, and democracy must have its spellbinders.
The principal fact of life is the free mind.
The most effective teacher will always be biased, for the chief force in teaching is confidence and enthusiasm.
I had come at last and my heart was beating again strongly to a heart that could not know despair because it forgot itself in the duty of its love.
A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments.
A world in everlasting conflict between the new idea and the old allegiances, new arts and new inventions against the old establishment.
The only good government. . . Is a bad one in a hell of a fright.
To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius. And easier. Because it's true. It's a new world every heart beat.
When a woman gets the idea of justice, there's no teaching her any sense.
For the essential thing about the work of art is that it is work, and very hard work too.
Where can one find a profounder desolation than in the poor child who has lost its mother?
What I say to an artist is, 'When you can't paint - paint.