64 Quotes by Malachy McCourt

Alcoholism is a dread, an awful, and fatal disease.

I've seen so many horrible and awful results and consequences of people practicing alcoholism. It's murder, I've seen that. I've seen a lot of suicides, a lot of strange sins.

I think people are so disillusioned with the parties. It's one party with two different names, and they are so spineless.

Never make any reference to the other person's family. "You're just like your - " because that is out, completely.

I am an alcoholic, as I said. And it is however we call it, a disease. That's an explanation, but not an excuse.

They don't allow a dying on the highway. No Passing. They give you a ticket if you die on the highway.

Conservatism is not a political ideology, it is a severe form of brain damage for which there's hardly any cure.

If you look up the word "gab" in the dictionary, it's insignificant of importance, of no substance. That's what gab is.

I tell my children, shut up and let me speak. What I've learned, I have been married for 45 years and in my own family It is that I've learned to stop being judgmental, to listen.