"Cute in Ireland meant cunning and devious … And I'm not sure that I'm not."

Malachy McCourt Literature See all quotes by Malachy McCourt →

React to this quote

More by Malachy McCourt

“Malachy's Personal Website”

“Anti-War Speech by McCourt”

“A Couple of Blaguards, the stageplay Malachy performed with his brother, Frank”

“I left school at age 13. I was illiterate with no role models. The great psychobabble today is the dysfunctional family. Well, I've never met one that was functional. In Limerick, a family that was dysfunctional was one who could afford to drink but didn't.”

“On his brother Frank: He's an amazing man … When he was 12, one of our schoolmasters said: "My boy, you are a literary genius. My strong suggestion is to go to America. They will appreciate you there." Over the years I've read what he's written that never got published, and I always said it still holds. He is a literary genius. Also the most nonjudgmental decent guy. He forgives.”

“A song about McCourt's bar on Third Avenue. By Maggie and Terre Roch”

Resonant Thoughts

"There's a silence in this house today. There's a silence all over Northern Ireland today. There's grieving and there is despair. But behind the despair, there is being born a unity that we haven't see…"

— Ian Paisley

Politics1926–2014

#mind

"Young Ireland, the Catholic Party and its newspaper organs in Dublin are trying to do all the mischief they can. They are praising the mutineers, and calling upon the Irish to follow their example. I …"

— Henry Temple

Politics1739–1802

#art

"We had a president, Moi, who was a dictator. He ruled the country with an iron fist, and anyone who dared question his authority was arrested, tortured, jailed or even killed. That meant that people w…"

— Boniface Mwangi

Politics1983

#life

"My father gave me a ruined boy to compensate for the fact that he does not love me. The boy is fragile, broken—broke himself—broke everything.I asked him why he did it. He said because the world was u…"

— Brenna Yovanoff

Literature1979

#love