Quotes from Mary Deasy

The Irish are never at peace but when they're fighting.

It's undeserved success that people are so terribly afraid of losing; they know they haven't any way, themselves, of ever getting it back again.

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.

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.

An Irish wedding is a tame thing to an Irish funeral.