List of Bernadette Devlin Quotes

Basically, I Have No Place In Organized Politics. By Coming To The British Parliament, I've Allowed The People To Sacrifice Me At The Top And Let Go The More Effective Job I Should Be Doing At The Bottom.

The Irish Aren't Great Singers, But They Have Great Songs.

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.

Free Love Is Too Expensive.

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.

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!

There Are No Illegitimate Children, Only Illegitimate Parents-if The Term Is To Be Used At All.

I Think My Life Will Always Be Worth Living, Though I Don't Imagine It Being Very Easy.

It Wasn't Long Before People Discovered The Final Horrors Of Letting An Urchin Into Parliament.

I Went To A Very Militantly Republican Grammar School And, Under Its Influence, Began To Revolt Against The Establishment, On Thesimple Rule Of Thumb, Highly Satisfying To A Ten-year-old, That Irish Equals Good, English Equals Bad.

Irish Catholics Are More Interested In The Rosary Beads Than In The Rosary.

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. Here, In The Middle Of The Twentieth Century, With Modern Technology Transforming Everybody's Lives, You Find A Medieval Mentality That Is Being Dragged Painfully Into The Eighteenth Century By Some Forward-looking People.