Marian Keyes Quotes

I never spoke to this many Yankees at one time.

In Ireland every place you visit and every person you meet has a story. And they love to tell you their stories. Everyone is interested in everything; in a land of storytellers, you will never be bored.

What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.

I love Ireland. I feel very at peace there. It's just magical and beautiful.

Come and say G'day!

I love playing in Ireland and I've had great support here, like I get everywhere.

I think there is a very strong sense of Irish identity, and I think partly that's to do with the fact that we have evolved differently from Britain and other countries in Europe.

It is a lovely oddity of human nature that a person is more inclined to interrupt two people in conversation than one person alone with a book.

One must talk. That's how it is. One must.

Talk is free. You never know what's going to happen after you talk. There's always a perception about a guy until you actually sit down and talk with him.

Conversation is a game of circles.

What happens when two people talk? That is really the basic question here, because, that's the basic context in which all persuasion takes place.

Most English talk is a quadrille in a sentry-box.

My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock should find the time in my face.

Here I have opportunity enough for the exercise of my talent, as the chief of my time is spent in conversation.

I am very fond of the people, landscape, poetry, music, history and the Guinness. Being there makes me think of my mother and my grandmother - always sentimental and warm thoughts.

It is often said that in Ireland there is an excess of genius unsustained by talent; but there is talent in the tongues.

That which chiefly causes the failure of a dinner-party, is the running short--not of meat, nor yet of drink, but of conversation.

I just think that we have more opportunity to have a bit more of that banter between each other. And, given that the two women are so different, there's really something to play with.

Did the Warwickshire militia, who were chiefly artisans, teach the Irish to drink beer, or did they learn from the Irish how to drink whiskey?

Ireland is not at all a simple place, and in many ways it is spare and sad. It has no wealth, no power, no stability, no influence, no fashion, no size. Its only real arts are song and drama and poem. But Limerick alone has two thousand ruined castles and surely that many practicing poets.

Conversation is not a search after knowledge, but an endeavor at effect.

A good thing to do when one is sitting, eating, and resting is to have a conversation.

Flirting is conversational chemistry.

Conversation is a beautiful thing. When I was a younger guy, just wandering around talking to people was what kept me connected to the world.