Sean O Faolain Quotes

Pessimists are usually kind. The gay, bubbling over, have no time for the pitiful.

optimism pessimism

I have learned in my thirty-odd years of serious writing only one sure lesson: stories, like whiskey, must be allowed to mature in the cask.

stories

God made the grass, the air and the rain; and the grass, the air and the rain made the Irish; and the Irish turned the grass, the air and the rain back into God.

Ireland