... in general, the Anglo-Irish do not make good dancers; they are too spritely and conscious; they are incapable of one kind of t...rance or of being seemingly impersonal. And, for the formal, pure dance they lack the formality: about their stylishness (for they have stylishness) there is something impromptu, slightly disorderly.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Why do we like being Irish? Partly because It gives us a hold on the sentimental English... As members of a world that never was, Baptized with fairy water;LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I was the rector's son, born to the anglican order, Banned for ever from the candles of the Irish poor;... The Chichesters knelt in marble at the end of a transept With ruffs about their necks, their portion sure.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No doubt Jews are most obnoxious creatures. Any competent historian or psychoanalyst can bring a mass of incontrovertible evidence... to prove that it would have been better for the world if the Jews had never existed. But I, as an Irishman, can, with patriotic relish, demonstrate the same of the English. Also of the Irish.... We all live in glass houses. Is it wise to throw stones at the Jews? Is it wise to throw stones at all?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
An entirely new factor has appeared in the social development of the country, and this factor is the Irish-American, and his influ...ence. To mature its powers, to concentrate its action, to learn the secret of its own strength and of England's weakness, the Celtic intellect has had to cross the Atlantic. At home it had but learned the pathetic weakness of nationality; in a strange land it realised what indomitable forces nationality possesses. What captivity was to the Jews, exile has been to the Irish: America and American influence have educated them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We Irish are too poetical to be poets; we are a nation of brilliant failures, but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »