Sean O'Faolain Quotes

At Harvard I learned most uncomfortably that facts are facts. In Italy I learned that facts are the way you look at them.

Pessimists are usually kind. The gay, bubbling over, have to time for the pitiful.

My final thought now is that as in religion and the arts, so in politics; if men do not balance their feelings and intelligence they lose command of both - and worse still, of their object.

There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen.