Arthur Joyce Lunel Cary (7 December 1888 – 29 March 1957) was an Irish novelist.
Funeral expenses are the curse of the poor everywhere on earth, they are wasteful and unnecessary, they are the price of foolish ostentation and a display that is less an evidence of grief than a vulgar travesty of those pompous obsequies where no grief is.
To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius.
I had come at last and my heart was beating again strongly to a heart that could not know despair because it forgot itself in the duty of its love.
A perfect God is the creation of a conceited man
The concept, the label, is perpetually hiding from us all the nature of the real.
People don't use their eyes. They never see a bird, they see a sparrow. They never see a tree, they see a birch. They see concepts.
The truth is that life is hard and dangerous; that he who seeks his own happiness does not find it; that he who is weak must suffer; that he who demands love will be disappointed; that he who is greedy will not be fed; that he who seeks peace will find strife; that truth is only for the brave; that joy is only for him who does not fear to be alone; that life is only for the one who is not afraid to die.
A perpetually new and lively world, but a dangerous one, full of tragedy and injustice.
It was as dark as the inside of a cabinet minister.
Love doesn't grow on trees like apples in Eden - it's something you have to make. And you must use your imagination too.
It is the tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know - and the less a man knows, the more sure he is that he knows everything.
What I say to an artist is, 'When you can't paint - paint.
Old men when they begin to hear the last trumpet, on the morning breeze, often have a kind of absent-minded smile; like people listening. And their smiles are just politeness.
Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul -- politics does the same thing for the body.
It is sometimes said that toleration should be refused to the intolerant. In practice this would destroy it. . . The only remedy for dogmatism and lies is toleration and the greatest possible liberty of expression.
The will is never free - it is always attached to an object, a purpose. It is simply the engine in the car - it can't steer
When a woman gets the idea of justice, there's no teaching her any sense.
An old mans memories, like his bones, grow sharp with age and show their true shapes.
The fear of hell, the punishment of sin, how the modern parent revolts from such teaching. Yet I will assert that far from doing us children harm, it was a sure foundation to the world of our confidence, a master girder in our palace of delight.
Throughout the play everything possible was done to show the virtue, innocence and helplessness of the poor, and the abandoned cruelty, the heartless self-indulgence of the rich.