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Top 30 Caroline O'Donoghue Quotes (2026 Update)

Caroline O'Donoghue Quote: “Our company is teeming with women under thirty, and men approaching or over fifty. That is how the food chain works. Dozens of attractive young women do the grunt work for a handful of men, and the women get filtered out by motherhood. It is the corporate version of natural selection.”

1. “Our company is teeming with women under thirty, and men approaching or over fifty. That is how the food chain works. Dozens of attractive young women do the grunt work for a handful of men, and the women get filtered out by motherhood. It is the corporate version of natural selection.”

— Caroline O'Donoghue

Caroline O'Donoghue Quote: “Turning people against one another is a very good distraction technique while you accumulate power.”

2. “Turning people against one another is a very good distraction technique while you accumulate power.”

— Caroline O'Donoghue

Caroline O'Donoghue Quote: “She learned to listen for the right sounds by tuning the wrong sounds out, and it had a permanent effect on her personality. If someone says something she doesn’t want to hear, she simply decides not to hear it.”

3. “She learned to listen for the right sounds by tuning the wrong sounds out, and it had a permanent effect on her personality. If someone says something she doesn’t want to hear, she simply decides not to hear it.”

— Caroline O'Donoghue

Caroline O'Donoghue Quote: “I was afraid, really, of being the main character in my own life. I choose to be someone that things happen to, because it was easier than being someone who made things happen.”

4. “I was afraid, really, of being the main character in my own life. I choose to be someone that things happen to, because it was easier than being someone who made things happen.”

— Caroline O'Donoghue

Caroline O'Donoghue Quote: “Perhaps it’s because so many people claim Irishness that we keep putting our private jokes on higher and higher shelves, so you have to ask a member of staff to get them down for you.”

5. “Perhaps it’s because so many people claim Irishness that we keep putting our private jokes on higher and higher shelves, so you have to ask a member of staff to get them down for you.”

— Caroline O'Donoghue

Caroline O'Donoghue Quote: “I don’t know who I was trying to impress. I did not want a boyfriend; I did want romance. I wanted passion; I did not want to be someone who was known as easy. I was desperate to be touched; I was terrified of being ruined.”

6. “I don’t know who I was trying to impress. I did not want a boyfriend; I did want romance. I wanted passion; I did not want to be someone who was known as easy. I was desperate to be touched; I was terrified of being ruined.”

— Caroline O'Donoghue

Caroline O'Donoghue Quote: “I thought of my parents as heads on Easter Island, and it took moving two miles away to realise they had been people all along.”

7. “I thought of my parents as heads on Easter Island, and it took moving two miles away to realise they had been people all along.”

— Caroline O'Donoghue

Caroline O'Donoghue Quote: “There’s a kind of glamour to be chosen, I think. I understand it, but it still makes me feel sick.”

8. “There’s a kind of glamour to be chosen, I think. I understand it, but it still makes me feel sick.”

— Caroline O'Donoghue

Caroline O'Donoghue Quote: “I had always been brought up to think of plastic trees as tacky, that big dogs were better than small dogs, that potato waffles were common. So many of my beliefs about the world had been predicated on our once having had money.”

9. “I had always been brought up to think of plastic trees as tacky, that big dogs were better than small dogs, that potato waffles were common. So many of my beliefs about the world had been predicated on our once having had money.”

— Caroline O'Donoghue

Caroline O'Donoghue Quote: “I’m not really into make-up or jewellery or anything, but I feel like... the only reason I’m not is because everyone expect you to be, as a girl, y’know? Like, whenever I put it on, I’m so aware of how I’m supposed to be wearing it. It kind of ruins the whole experience.”

10. “I’m not really into make-up or jewellery or anything, but I feel like... the only reason I’m not is because everyone expect you to be, as a girl, y’know? Like, whenever I put it on, I’m so aware of how I’m supposed to be wearing it. It kind of ruins the whole experience.”

— Caroline O'Donoghue

Caroline O'Donoghue Quote: “We, in that way siblings do for outsiders, tried to make a travelling circus out of our childhood. Stories about old holiday rentals and falling out of trees.”

11. “We, in that way siblings do for outsiders, tried to make a travelling circus out of our childhood. Stories about old holiday rentals and falling out of trees.”

— Caroline O'Donoghue

Caroline O'Donoghue Quote: “I was twenty and I needed two things: to be in love and to be taken seriously.”

12. “I was twenty and I needed two things: to be in love and to be taken seriously.”

— Caroline O'Donoghue

Caroline O'Donoghue Quote: “We ran into them at a Goldfrapp gig. They attended it the way I go to gigs with my own husband now – fun, dinner first, home by eleven, something to do. There’s only a short stretch in your life where you can attend gigs with spiritual commitment.”

13. “We ran into them at a Goldfrapp gig. They attended it the way I go to gigs with my own husband now – fun, dinner first, home by eleven, something to do. There’s only a short stretch in your life where you can attend gigs with spiritual commitment.”

— Caroline O'Donoghue

Caroline O'Donoghue Quote: “Lily isn’t dirty, per se; it’s just that she doesn’t really like to live in her body. She doesn’t like to notice it. If she could just be a brain in a jar, reading books and drawing, she’d be much happier.”

14. “Lily isn’t dirty, per se; it’s just that she doesn’t really like to live in her body. She doesn’t like to notice it. If she could just be a brain in a jar, reading books and drawing, she’d be much happier.”

— Caroline O'Donoghue

Caroline O'Donoghue Quote: “Courtship, to me, was about text messages. It was about sending someone a good-morning and a good-night message. It was ending every text with an x, or three x’s, or a long line of them when you were really pleased. It was about withholding x’s when you were moody, and then they would notice, and ask you what was wrong. These were the rules of love I had learned from my all-girls school, and it confused me when someone didn’t play.”

15. “Courtship, to me, was about text messages. It was about sending someone a good-morning and a good-night message. It was ending every text with an x, or three x’s, or a long line of them when you were really pleased. It was about withholding x’s when you were moody, and then they would notice, and ask you what was wrong. These were the rules of love I had learned from my all-girls school, and it confused me when someone didn’t play.”

— Caroline O'Donoghue

Caroline O'Donoghue Quote: “But if you want to change how someone thinks, you have to know how they think and why they think it.”

16. “But if you want to change how someone thinks, you have to know how they think and why they think it.”

— Caroline O'Donoghue

Caroline O'Donoghue Quote: “It was easy, now that I understood passion properly, to see why you would move heaven and earth to secure it.”

17. “It was easy, now that I understood passion properly, to see why you would move heaven and earth to secure it.”

— Caroline O'Donoghue

Caroline O'Donoghue Quote: “Unable to believe how in a year where everything had changed, things had somehow managed to change again.”

18. “Unable to believe how in a year where everything had changed, things had somehow managed to change again.”

— Caroline O'Donoghue

Caroline O'Donoghue Quote: “If I didn’t have carbs three times a day I couldn’t finish a sentence, and that was that.”

19. “If I didn’t have carbs three times a day I couldn’t finish a sentence, and that was that.”

— Caroline O'Donoghue

Caroline O'Donoghue Quote: “I groped at the air with my hands. “I’m just some dumpy chick who works in a bookshop, Carey, you could have rung and broke it off with me without it becoming the dance of the seven veils.”

20. “I groped at the air with my hands. “I’m just some dumpy chick who works in a bookshop, Carey, you could have rung and broke it off with me without it becoming the dance of the seven veils.”

— Caroline O'Donoghue

Caroline O'Donoghue Quote: “I don’t know anyone who chases after stuff the way you do. I think you just want this big huge exceptional life, and you’re probably going to have a huge big exceptional love that goes with it.”

21. “I don’t know anyone who chases after stuff the way you do. I think you just want this big huge exceptional life, and you’re probably going to have a huge big exceptional love that goes with it.”

— Caroline O'Donoghue

Caroline O'Donoghue Quote: “Everyone who craves power once had none.”

22. “Everyone who craves power once had none.”

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Caroline O'Donoghue Quote: “There was something ancient and Catholic in him, a pure defiant streak of old Rome that had been strong in his family and kept alive by living in the North. He wore a miraculous medal. He knew his saints.”

23. “There was something ancient and Catholic in him, a pure defiant streak of old Rome that had been strong in his family and kept alive by living in the North. He wore a miraculous medal. He knew his saints.”

— Caroline O'Donoghue

Caroline O'Donoghue Quote: “The geyser was beautiful, and it splashed everyone, and the splash was so happily received that it felt like a version of Sea World for people who read The New York Times on their phone.”

24. “The geyser was beautiful, and it splashed everyone, and the splash was so happily received that it felt like a version of Sea World for people who read The New York Times on their phone.”

— Caroline O'Donoghue

Caroline O'Donoghue Quote: “I was a pretty cheerful person by nature. Emotionally dependable, like a good horse. Perhaps if I had been a more melancholy girl I would have been able to recognize that I was in the middle of a trauma, a word that still feels like it’s for other people.”

25. “I was a pretty cheerful person by nature. Emotionally dependable, like a good horse. Perhaps if I had been a more melancholy girl I would have been able to recognize that I was in the middle of a trauma, a word that still feels like it’s for other people.”

— Caroline O'Donoghue

Caroline O'Donoghue Quote: “I felt like an animal that had to take itself somewhere to die... You forget the pain of childbirth. But you forget other kinds of pain, too.”

26. “I felt like an animal that had to take itself somewhere to die... You forget the pain of childbirth. But you forget other kinds of pain, too.”

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Caroline O'Donoghue Quote: “This is what it’s like to love an unreliable man, or to have an untenable job, or an unsteady parent, or an ill child. It is the outfit you constantly dress up and down, accessorising it according to what insecurities hang well, what caveats are the most slimming.”

27. “This is what it’s like to love an unreliable man, or to have an untenable job, or an unsteady parent, or an ill child. It is the outfit you constantly dress up and down, accessorising it according to what insecurities hang well, what caveats are the most slimming.”

— Caroline O'Donoghue

Caroline O'Donoghue Quote: “The problem with genuine memories is that you know too much. It ruins everything.”

28. “The problem with genuine memories is that you know too much. It ruins everything.”

— Caroline O'Donoghue

Caroline O'Donoghue Quote: “Anything people come together to believe in is real. Intense, passionate energy that is focused on one spot will create something.”

29. “Anything people come together to believe in is real. Intense, passionate energy that is focused on one spot will create something.”

— Caroline O'Donoghue

Caroline O'Donoghue Quote: “He talked about the book industry as if it were a dragon that was chained in the basement, and would tear us limb from limb at any moment.”

30. “He talked about the book industry as if it were a dragon that was chained in the basement, and would tear us limb from limb at any moment.”

— Caroline O'Donoghue

Caroline O'Donoghue Quote: “He was a doctor and I was supposed to take what he said seriously; but he was a dentist and my dad so I didn’t.”

31. “He was a doctor and I was supposed to take what he said seriously; but he was a dentist and my dad so I didn’t.”

— Caroline O'Donoghue

Caroline O'Donoghue Quote: “Relationships grow in the cradle they are born in.”

32. “Relationships grow in the cradle they are born in.”

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Caroline O'Donoghue Quote: “All the witches in stories know things by their true names, don’t they?”

33. “All the witches in stories know things by their true names, don’t they?”

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Caroline O'Donoghue Quote: “She told me never to envy anyone from Oxbridge because all of them were either egotistical bullies or trembling and frightened of themselves.”

34. “She told me never to envy anyone from Oxbridge because all of them were either egotistical bullies or trembling and frightened of themselves.”

— Caroline O'Donoghue

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