Honor is a harder master than the law.
The Irish are never at peace but when they're fighting.
An Irish wedding is a tame thing to an Irish funeral.
someone had tried to warn me of the kind of catastrophe that is likely to occur when you involve yourself too closely in one of those destinies that is ringed around by the transient tinsel of human applause.
I could remember the house on Lexington Street, where the mortgage hung over our heads almost as tangibly as the roof, and we still managed to enjoy life.
You may have noticed there are three things an Irishman always puts his soul in: his religion, his sports, and his politics. If you ever find an Irishman who is wishy-washy on any one of those, you can make up your mind to it he is not the true article at all.
That's the way it is with influence, you know; if you don't use it all the time, people will forget you have it.
When you photograph a face. . . you photograph the soul behind it.
For me, as a film goer, I like nothing more than to sit in the cinema, have the lights go down and not know what I'm about to see or unfold on-screen. Every time we go to make a film, we do everything we can to try to systematise things so we're able to make the film in private, so that when it's finished it's up to the audience to make of it what they will.
Whenever a man denounces the mind, it is because his goal is of a nature the mind would not permit him to confess.
I do think, half of what we call madness is just some poor slob dealing with pain by a strategy that annoys the people around him.