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Top 20 J. P. Donleavy Quotes (2024 Update)

J. P. Donleavy Quote: “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?”

1. “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

J. P. Donleavy Quote: “On Being Old. It’s not nice but take comfort that you won’t stay that way for ever.”

2. “On Being Old. It’s not nice but take comfort that you won’t stay that way for ever.”

— J. P. Donleavy

J. P. Donleavy Quote: “Writing is turning one’s worst moments into money.”

3. “Writing is turning one’s worst moments into money.”

— J. P. Donleavy

J. P. Donleavy Quote: “I’m starved for love. Not ordinary love but real love. The love that’s like music or something.”

4. “I’m starved for love. Not ordinary love but real love. The love that’s like music or something.”

— J. P. Donleavy

J. P. Donleavy Quote: “Sometimes you write and you find yourself almost wondering how it will turn out. I don’t think every writer sort of almost admits that at some stage his books can take on their own kind of life it selves and simply lead away into directions that they’re not kind of prepared for.”

5. “Sometimes you write and you find yourself almost wondering how it will turn out. I don’t think every writer sort of almost admits that at some stage his books can take on their own kind of life it selves and simply lead away into directions that they’re not kind of prepared for.”

— J. P. Donleavy

J. P. Donleavy Quote: “Rid the mind of knowledge when looking for pleasure. Or start thinking and find a lot of pain.”

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

— J. P. Donleavy

J. P. Donleavy Quote: “To marry the Irish is to look for poverty.”

7. “To marry the Irish is to look for poverty.”

— J. P. Donleavy

J. P. Donleavy Quote: “The purpose of writing is to make your mother and father drop dead with shame.”

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

— J. P. Donleavy

J. P. Donleavy Quote: “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.”

9. “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

J. P. Donleavy Quote: “You know, there must be happiness somewhere, when a lawyer dies.”

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

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J. P. Donleavy Quote: “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.”

11. “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

J. P. Donleavy Quote: “I got disappointed in human nature as well and gave it up because I found it too much like my own.”

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

— J. P. Donleavy

J. P. Donleavy Quote: “Revenge is what I want. Nothing but pure unadulterated revenge. But my mother brought me up to be a lady.”

13. “Revenge is what I want. Nothing but pure unadulterated revenge. But my mother brought me up to be a lady.”

— J. P. Donleavy

J. P. Donleavy Quote: “I don’t like lawyers, nannie.” “No one likes lawyers, little boy.”

14. “I don’t like lawyers, nannie.” “No one likes lawyers, little boy.”

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J. P. Donleavy Quote: “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.”

15. “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.”

— J. P. Donleavy

J. P. Donleavy Quote: “The inhabitants will always see both sides of an argument so long as it can result in a fight.”

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

— J. P. Donleavy

J. P. Donleavy Quote: “If you’re going to love somebody, love somebody who needs it.”

17. “If you’re going to love somebody, love somebody who needs it.”

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J. P. Donleavy Quote: “Miss Frost, sometimes I feel fifty three. Seldom, but at times, I feel twenty. Like the days. Ever feel a Saturday on a Tuesday? Or a week of one Friday after another? Recently I’ve been seventy. But I remember thirty four as a fine age.”

18. “Miss Frost, sometimes I feel fifty three. Seldom, but at times, I feel twenty. Like the days. Ever feel a Saturday on a Tuesday? Or a week of one Friday after another? Recently I’ve been seventy. But I remember thirty four as a fine age.”

— J. P. Donleavy

J. P. Donleavy Quote: “Lawyers, ah yes, they have courage. But only when it is time to send the bill.”

19. “Lawyers, ah yes, they have courage. But only when it is time to send the bill.”

— J. P. Donleavy

J. P. Donleavy Quote: “Who is that man with mommie. These are lawyers. What are lawyers. They are men who look things up in big books.”

20. “Who is that man with mommie. These are lawyers. What are lawyers. They are men who look things up in big books.”

— J. P. Donleavy

J. P. Donleavy Quote: “Not using that handy maxim a man is what he makes his dough at and alas how much. Sometimes it is a gentle gesture to remind people of their big time possibilities. Makes them like you.”

21. “Not using that handy maxim a man is what he makes his dough at and alas how much. Sometimes it is a gentle gesture to remind people of their big time possibilities. Makes them like you.”

— J. P. Donleavy

J. P. Donleavy Quote: “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.”

22. “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

J. P. Donleavy Quote: “I’m all for Christianity, but insolence must be put down.”

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

— J. P. Donleavy

J. P. Donleavy Quote: “See all the women seated, youth in their face lifts, old age in their hands.”

24. “See all the women seated, youth in their face lifts, old age in their hands.”

— J. P. Donleavy

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