14 Quotes by Monica Furlong

It used to irritate a friend of mine that when he went to confession he never got the chance to tell the priest the good things he had done.

If envy was not such a tearing thing to feel it would be the most comic of sins. It is usually, if not always, based on a complete misunderstanding of another person’s situation.

What I like about gluttony, a bishop I knew used to say, is that it doesnt hurt anyone else.

People are like a pack of dogs sometimes. All right one by one, but together... together they do awful things they don’t mean to do.

All learned people learn Latin. It’s bound to come in useful. Fairy tales, on the other hand, are about real life.