"There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting."

--

Source : John Millington Synge (2008). “The Complete Works of J. M. Synge”, p.396, Wordsworth Editions

John Millington Synge

#Language Quotes #Soothing Quotes

“Because of my personal history, my professional skills and my business achievements, I am a man nobody can expect to compare himself with.”
“It looked to me like a vamp version of a pissing contest. Men will be boys.”

Source : Faith Hunter (2009). “Skinwalker: A Jane Yellowrock Novel”, p.207, Penguin
“Cold words freeze people, and hot words scorch them, and bitter words make them bitter, and wrathful words make them wrathful. Kind words also produce their own image on men's souls; and a beautiful image it is. They smooth, and quiet, and comfort the hearer.”
“My feeling is that scientific method has the power to account for and interlink all phenomena in the universe, including its origin, using the laws of nature. But that still leaves the laws unexplained.”
“A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world.”

Source : "The Mammoth Book of Zingers, Quips, and One-Liners". Book by Geoff Tibballs, 2004.
“I realized that even if we went on talking till Judgment Day, I would still find the time all too short.”
“The chile, it seems to me, is one of the few foods that has its own goddess.”
“The temptations are great to simply retreat to the domain of private life and give up on our public problems.”

You may also like:

Brian Friel
Dramatist
Douglas Hyde
Former President of Ireland
Henrik Ibsen
Playwright
Jack Butler Yeats
Artist
Lady Gregory
Dramatist
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Composer
Samuel Beckett
Novelist
William Butler Yeats
Poet
Sean O'Casey
Dramatist