32 Quotes by Bernadette Devlin

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.

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

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.

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

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