Bernadette Devlin Quotes

Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win.

My function in life is not to be a politician in Parliament: it is to get something done.

... in Northern Ireland, if you don't have basic Christianity, rather than merely religion, all you get out of the experience of living is bitterness.

We were born into an unjust system; we are not prepared to grow old in it.

To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else

Irish Catholics are more interested in the rosary beads than in the rosary.

It wasn't long before people discovered the final horrors of letting an urchin into Parliament.

There are no illegitimate children, only illegitimate parents-if the term is to be used at all.

I'm not good enough to be a saint and not bad enough to be interesting.

Free love is too expensive.

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!

I think my life will always be worth living, though I don't imagine it being very easy.

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.

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.

To gain that which is worth having it may be necessary to lose everything else.

To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.