One American said that the most interesting thing about Holy Ireland was that its people hate each other in the name of Jesus Christ. And they do!
BERNADETTE DEVLINThere are no illegitimate children, only illegitimate parents-if the term is to be used at all.
More Bernadette Devlin Quotes
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To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else
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Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win.
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Free love is too expensive.
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My function in life is not to be a politician in Parliament: it is to get something done.
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But I make a distinction between the doctrines of the Church, which matter, and the structure invented by half a dozen Italians who got to be pope and which is of very little use to anybody.
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Irish Catholics are more interested in the rosary beads than in the rosary.
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I’m not good enough to be a saint and not bad enough to be interesting.
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I could see them everywhere I spoke and still cannot comprehend the mentality that argues that I should have pretended not to see them, because it wasn’t my business.
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The Irish aren’t great singers, but they have great songs.
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Should an anthropologist or a sociologist be looking for a bizarre society to study, I would suggest he come to Ulster. It is one of Europe’s oddest countries.
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It wasn’t long before people discovered the final horrors of letting an urchin into Parliament.
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I think my life will always be worth living, though I don’t imagine it being very easy.
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There are no illegitimate children, only illegitimate parents-if the term is to be used at all.
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It did not seem to me that prejudice, poverty, discrimination, repression and racism were confined to the North of Ireland.
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I got quite bored, serving in the bar. Since I was there, the customers wouldn’t talk about women, and with half their subject matter denied them, it was: horses, silence; horses, silence.
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