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| I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me. | | Funny | |
| I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people. | | Courage | |
| I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation. | | Conversation | |
| I quite agree with you, sir, but what can two do against so many? | | Uncategorized | |
| I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way: by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could. | | Uncategorized | |
| I sold flowers. I didn't sell myself. Now you've made a lady of me I'm not fit to sell anything else. | | Uncategorized | |
| I talk democracy to these men and women. I tell them that they have the vote, and that theirs is the kingdom and the power and the glory. I say to them ''You are supreme: exercise your power'.' They say, ''That's right: tell us what to do';' and I tell them. I say ''Exercise our vote intelligently by voting for me'.' And they do. That's democracy; and a splendid thing it is too for putting the right men in the right place. | | Uncategorized | |
| I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it in to existence or clearing the way for it | | Uncategorized | |
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| I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. | | Life; Retirement; T-Shirt; Work | |
| I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work, the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no “brief candle” to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations. | | Ambition; Death; Effort; Satisfaction; Work | |
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| I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence. | | Uncategorized | |
| I write plays because I like it and because I cannot remember any period in my life when I could have been inventing people and scenes. I am not primarily a story teller : things occur to me first as seems with action and dialogue as moments, develop | | Play | |
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| I'm not a teacher: only a fellow-traveller of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead - ahead of myself as well as you. | | Confidence | |
| I'm only a beer teetotaler, not a champagne teetotaler. | | Uncategorized | |
| I've been offered titles, but I think they get one into disreputable company. | | Uncategorized | |
