J. P. Donleavy Quotes

The purpose of writing is to make your mother and father drop dead with shame.

The inhabitants will always see both sides of an argument so long as it can result in a fight.

Rid the mind of knowledge when looking for pleasure. Or start thinking and find a lot of pain.

Expect the worst and that’s what you’ll get only it will be much worse.

You know, there must be happiness somewhere, when a lawyer dies.

At the age of 18 I don’t think that I thought very differently than I did at the age of 25. I think we instinctively have the knowledge and adapt the knowledge we need.

I got disappointed in human nature as well and gave it up because I found it too much like my own.

I’m all for Christianity, but insolence must be put down.

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.

Dear Mr Skully, I have caught my neck in a mangle and will be indisposed for eternity. Yours in death S.D.

Blessed are they who in this sea of frailty, climb aboard a piece of ass as it floats by.

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.