When the Italians play the Germans it'll be fascinating. Mightn't be very good football but it'll be great psychology.

It is indeed hard for the strong to be just to the weak, but acting justly always has its rewards.

It is my considered opinion that in the fullness of time history will record the greatness of Michael Collins and it will be recorded at my expense.

If liberty is not entire it is not liberty.

We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.

For Irishmen, there is no football game to match rugby and if all our young men played rugby not only would we beat England and Wales but France and the whole lot of them put together.

Partition is after all only an old fortress of crumbled masonry - held together with the plaster of fiction.

All history is man's efforts to realise ideals.

Since this war began our sympathy has gone out to all the suffering people who have been dragged into it. Further hundreds of millions have become involved since I spoke at Limerick fortnight ago.

It is the duty of our men to enroll themselves in the national services. We need all our manpower for defence. For the military and... we need a quarter of a million men.

Unemployment is due to the large import of goods from Britain and other countries. The Government haven't used the powers which they have for the benefit of the country.

You can reach maximum performance by engaging in physical activities.

In other words apart from the known and the unknown what else is there?

The devil is not abroad at night in the form of a cat or a wolf or any other animal. He lives eternally in the hearts of men.

I don't see what was wrong with the old inkpads.

I remember in Shallow Grave I remember a few times when we'd only have to do one take. But when you did have to do more than one, you'd build on the one you'd done.

I write my novels personally, desperately and non-negligently. When I write my novels, I think about my novels only, and never do other works.

As in many countries precious metals belong to the crown, so here more precious natural objects of rare beauty should belong to the public.

Ecclesiastical establishments tend to great ignorance and corruption

I'm about as healthy as a person can be. I quit smoking seven or eight years ago.

People who are greedy have extraordinary capacities for waste-they must, they take in too much.