Quotes from Sean O Faolain

In the presence of great music we have no alternative but to live nobly.

The things I like to find in a story are punch and poetry.

There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen.

Ireland had clung to her youth, indeed to her childhood, longer and more tenaciously than any other country in Europe, resisting Change, Alteration, Reconstruction to the very last.

The upshot of it has been that the spirit of the Past is now widely regarded amongst us as a purely immaterial force pumping a million times a day in the rose-pink heart of every true Irishman.

Irish queer: a fellow who prefers women to drink.

Love lives in sealed bottles of regret.