It's undeserved success that people are so terribly afraid of losing; they know they haven't any way, themselves, of ever getting it back again.

- Mary Deasy

The Irish are never at peace but when they're fighting.

- Mary Deasy

I could remember the house on Lexington Street, where the mortgage hung over our heads almost as tangibly as the roof, and we still managed to enjoy …

- Mary Deasy

You may have noticed there are three things an Irishman always puts his soul in: his religion, his sports, and his politics. If you ever find an Iris…

- Mary Deasy

someone had tried to warn me of the kind of catastrophe that is likely to occur when you involve yourself too closely in one of those destinies that …

- Mary Deasy

That's the way it is with influence, you know; if you don't use it all the time, people will forget you have it.

- Mary Deasy

An Irish wedding is a tame thing to an Irish funeral.

- Mary Deasy