J. P. Donleavy famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Electronic books are a bad thing because they cannot be accumulated on shelves to remind you of your past, to impress your neighbors and colleagues, and to help prevent divorces thanks to the sheer bother of arguing over who owns what.
-- J. P. Donleavy

#Book #Divorce #Past
Writing is turning one's worst moments into money.
-- J. P. Donleavy

#Writing #Moments #Worst
The purpose of writing is to make your mother and father drop dead with shame.
-- J. P. Donleavy

#Mother #Father #Writing
To marry the Irish is to look for poverty.
-- J. P. Donleavy

#Looks #Poverty
Expect the worst And that's what You'll get Only it will be Much worse.
-- J. P. Donleavy

#Worst
Blessed are they who in this sea of frailty, climb aboard a piece of ***** as it floats by.
-- J. P. Donleavy

#Blessed #Sea #Pieces
I'm all for Christianity, but insolence must be put down.
-- J. P. Donleavy

#Christianity #Insolence
I got disappointed in human nature as well and gave it up because I found it too much like my own.
-- J. P. Donleavy

#Too Much #Human Nature #Found
On Being Old. It's not nice but take comfort that you won't stay that way for ever.
-- J. P. Donleavy

#Nice #Comfort #Way
The inhabitants will always see both sides of an argument so long as it can result in a fight.
-- J. P. Donleavy

#Fighting #Long #Sides
Rid the mind of knowledge when looking for pleasure. Or start thinking and find a lot of pain.
-- J. P. Donleavy

#Pain #Thinking #Mind
I'm starved for love. Not ordinary love but real love. The love that's like music or something.
-- J. P. Donleavy

#Real #Real Love #Ordinary
You know, there must be happiness somewhere, when a lawyer dies.
-- J. P. Donleavy

#Lawyer
See all the women seated, youth in their face lifts, old age in their hands.
-- J. P. Donleavy

#Hands #Age #Faces
When you don't have any money, the problem is food. When you have money, it's sex. When you have both, it's health. If everything is simply jake, then you're frightened of death
-- J. P. Donleavy

#Money #Sex #Jake
Food Throwers: Begun usually by estranged couples, once this victual flinging starts, everyone will do it...Should your dinner party have become an out of control concussion match with opponents catapulting croutons and petits pois across the mahogany, don't fight it, go with it. And when you have the desire to quell the uprising approach the original perpetrator from behind. There, slowly crown her with the contents of the fresh fruit salad bowl. But be warned. Although this immobilizes and rivits everyone's attention it also gives them new ideas.
-- J. P. Donleavy

#Couple #Party #Fighting
When I die, I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin. I wonder would they know it was me?
-- J. P. Donleavy

#Beer #Dublin #Want
And no. I must not go on thinking. For the pain will never go away. You just go on and live. In the dust of desertion. Still falling where last I loved.
-- J. P. Donleavy

#Pain #Lost Love #Fall
Revenge is what I want. Nothing but pure unadulterated revenge. But my mother brought me up to be a lady.
-- J. P. Donleavy

#Mother #Revenge #Want
Dear Mr Skully, I have caught my neck in a mangle and will be indisposed for eternity. Yours in death S.D.
-- J. P. Donleavy

#Necks #Eternity #Caught
The best book of the year, Grobel's writing is quite marvelous. The Hustons reads vividly, just like one of John Huston's great films.
-- J. P. Donleavy

#Book #Writing #Years

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