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Top 20 Jamie O'Neill Quotes (2024 Update)

Jamie O'Neill Quote: “The four cautions: Beware a woman in front of you, beware a horse behind of you, beware a cart beside of you, and beware a priest every which way.”

1. “The four cautions: Beware a woman in front of you, beware a horse behind of you, beware a cart beside of you, and beware a priest every which way.”

— Jamie O'Neill

Jamie O'Neill Quote: “If you carry the weather with you, then character is determined by the prevailing wind.”

2. “If you carry the weather with you, then character is determined by the prevailing wind.”

— Jamie O'Neill

Jamie O'Neill Quote: “All love does ever rightly show humanity our tenderness.”

3. “All love does ever rightly show humanity our tenderness.”

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Jamie O'Neill Quote: “I’m just thinking that would be pleasant. To be reading, say, out of a book, and you to come up and touch me – my neck, say, or my knee – and I’d carry on reading, I might let a smile, no more, wouldn’t lose my place on the page. It would be pleasant to come to that. We’d come so close, do you see, that I wouldn’t be surprised out of myself every time you touched.”

4. “I’m just thinking that would be pleasant. To be reading, say, out of a book, and you to come up and touch me – my neck, say, or my knee – and I’d carry on reading, I might let a smile, no more, wouldn’t lose my place on the page. It would be pleasant to come to that. We’d come so close, do you see, that I wouldn’t be surprised out of myself every time you touched.”

— Jamie O'Neill

Jamie O'Neill Quote: “Grey morning dulled the bay. Banks of clouds, Howth just one more bank, rolled to sea, where other Howths grumbled to greet them. Swollen spumeless tide. Heads that bobbed like floating gulls and gulls that floating bobbed like heads. Two heads. At swim, two boys.”

5. “Grey morning dulled the bay. Banks of clouds, Howth just one more bank, rolled to sea, where other Howths grumbled to greet them. Swollen spumeless tide. Heads that bobbed like floating gulls and gulls that floating bobbed like heads. Two heads. At swim, two boys.”

— Jamie O'Neill

Jamie O'Neill Quote: “We’re extraordinary people. We must do extraordinary things.”

6. “We’re extraordinary people. We must do extraordinary things.”

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Jamie O'Neill Quote: “He slept that night thinking of loves and lighthouses. That one love might shine to bring all loves home.”

7. “He slept that night thinking of loves and lighthouses. That one love might shine to bring all loves home.”

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Jamie O'Neill Quote: “The world would say that we did not exist, that only our actions, our habits, were real, which the world called our crimes or our sins. But Scrotes began to think that we did indeed exist. That we had a nature our own, which was not another’s perverted or turned to sin. Our actions could not be crimes, he believed, because they were the expressions of a nature, of an existence even. Which came first, he asked, the deed or the doer? And he began to answer that, for some, it was the doer.”

8. “The world would say that we did not exist, that only our actions, our habits, were real, which the world called our crimes or our sins. But Scrotes began to think that we did indeed exist. That we had a nature our own, which was not another’s perverted or turned to sin. Our actions could not be crimes, he believed, because they were the expressions of a nature, of an existence even. Which came first, he asked, the deed or the doer? And he began to answer that, for some, it was the doer.”

— Jamie O'Neill

Jamie O'Neill Quote: “A wedding left the church and, meeting a funeral, walked three steps with the dead.”

9. “A wedding left the church and, meeting a funeral, walked three steps with the dead.”

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Jamie O'Neill Quote: “I don’t hate the English and I don’t know do I love the Irish. But I love him. I’m sure of that now. And he’s my country.”

10. “I don’t hate the English and I don’t know do I love the Irish. But I love him. I’m sure of that now. And he’s my country.”

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Jamie O'Neill Quote: “And I think, how happier my boyhood should have been, had somebody – Listen, boy, listen to my tale – thought to tell me the truth. Listen while I tell you, boy, these men loved and yet were noble. You too shall love, body and soul, as they; and there shall be a place for you, boy, noble and magnificent as any. Hold true to your love: these things shall be.”

11. “And I think, how happier my boyhood should have been, had somebody – Listen, boy, listen to my tale – thought to tell me the truth. Listen while I tell you, boy, these men loved and yet were noble. You too shall love, body and soul, as they; and there shall be a place for you, boy, noble and magnificent as any. Hold true to your love: these things shall be.”

— Jamie O'Neill

Jamie O'Neill Quote: “My black-headed black-eyed boy. I remember every day of you. How would I forget?”

12. “My black-headed black-eyed boy. I remember every day of you. How would I forget?”

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Jamie O'Neill Quote: “It was far too absurd to die of a Tuesday.”

13. “It was far too absurd to die of a Tuesday.”

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Jamie O'Neill Quote: “Did you not look upon the world this morning and imagine it as the boy might see it? And did you not recognize the mist and the dew and the birdsong as elements not of a place or a time but of a spirit? And did you not envy the boy his spirit? For you know there can be no power over him who freely gives what another would take. Such a one has the capacity to love. Freely, naively, to say I do.”

14. “Did you not look upon the world this morning and imagine it as the boy might see it? And did you not recognize the mist and the dew and the birdsong as elements not of a place or a time but of a spirit? And did you not envy the boy his spirit? For you know there can be no power over him who freely gives what another would take. Such a one has the capacity to love. Freely, naively, to say I do.”

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Jamie O'Neill Quote: “Were Wilde’s panthers grateful or rebellious? Eventually, of course, one prefers a rebellious bedfellow. But it requires a degree of gratitude to get him into bed in the first place.”

15. “Were Wilde’s panthers grateful or rebellious? Eventually, of course, one prefers a rebellious bedfellow. But it requires a degree of gratitude to get him into bed in the first place.”

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Jamie O'Neill Quote: “His collar pulled and his tie strained against the intrusion. He blinked. He was irresistibly aware of the oddness of moving things.”

16. “His collar pulled and his tie strained against the intrusion. He blinked. He was irresistibly aware of the oddness of moving things.”

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Jamie O'Neill Quote: “The people shall further be graded according to wealth, and – humorous touch this – the more obviously a man labor, the more stinting shall be his reward; the more he work in the out-of-doors, the thinner his clothing shall be; the more his labor filthy him, the less water shall he have to wash.”

17. “The people shall further be graded according to wealth, and – humorous touch this – the more obviously a man labor, the more stinting shall be his reward; the more he work in the out-of-doors, the thinner his clothing shall be; the more his labor filthy him, the less water shall he have to wash.”

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Jamie O'Neill Quote: “He was pal o’ me heart, so he was. I try not to think of him, only I can’t get him off my mind. He’s with me always day and night. I do see him places he’s never been, in the middle of a crowd I see him. His face looks out from the top of a tram, a schoolboy wouldn’t pass but I’m thinking it’s him. I try to make him go away, for I’m a soldier now and I’m under orders. But he’s always there and I’m desperate to hold him. I doubt I’m a man expect he’s by me.”

18. “He was pal o’ me heart, so he was. I try not to think of him, only I can’t get him off my mind. He’s with me always day and night. I do see him places he’s never been, in the middle of a crowd I see him. His face looks out from the top of a tram, a schoolboy wouldn’t pass but I’m thinking it’s him. I try to make him go away, for I’m a soldier now and I’m under orders. But he’s always there and I’m desperate to hold him. I doubt I’m a man expect he’s by me.”

— Jamie O'Neill

Jamie O'Neill Quote: “So ardent did he sing, each note might carry a breath of his life. People passing stopped to hear. And seeing them gathered, he stumbled among them with his hat held out. It was easy to credit the truth of his song, that his dim old eyes, they once had shone, that his heart, once cheerful, had been bro-o-ken. Two coins chinkled in his hat. And so it was when nights were still and sleep had yet to bind him, round him shone that other light, fondly to remind him.”

19. “So ardent did he sing, each note might carry a breath of his life. People passing stopped to hear. And seeing them gathered, he stumbled among them with his hat held out. It was easy to credit the truth of his song, that his dim old eyes, they once had shone, that his heart, once cheerful, had been bro-o-ken. Two coins chinkled in his hat. And so it was when nights were still and sleep had yet to bind him, round him shone that other light, fondly to remind him.”

— Jamie O'Neill

Jamie O'Neill Quote: “What country is that without a friend in it?”

20. “What country is that without a friend in it?”

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Jamie O'Neill Quote: “Jim looked at him. He was lying on his front with a meadow grass sticking out from his mouth. How did Doyler do this? He could make Jim so angry with himself, so ashamed. The next minute, he was all alive, like a spark was inside, like the full of him was electric. How did Doyler do this to him? He really didn’t know.”

21. “Jim looked at him. He was lying on his front with a meadow grass sticking out from his mouth. How did Doyler do this? He could make Jim so angry with himself, so ashamed. The next minute, he was all alive, like a spark was inside, like the full of him was electric. How did Doyler do this to him? He really didn’t know.”

— Jamie O'Neill

Jamie O'Neill Quote: “Yes, I had known him all my life – and then we met.”

22. “Yes, I had known him all my life – and then we met.”

— Jamie O'Neill

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