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Nick Barron: The law and justice are two entirely different matters.
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Desmond Doyle: I'm not drinkin' and drivin'! I drank before I drove.
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Michael Beattie: To fight church and state is to fight Goliath.
Desmond Doyle: Yeah, well, David beat Goliath in the book I read.
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[in court, a lawyer has told Evelyn what a nun has claimed]
Evelyn Doyle: Oh, no, that's not true! Hope she goes to confession soon.
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[first lines]
Dermot Doyle: Evelyn, did Jesus have a big sister?
Evelyn Doyle: No Dermot, he wasn't as lucky as you.
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Dermot Doyle: [Evelyn has poured one cup with more milk than the others] I want the bigger one!
Evelyn Doyle: No, the big one's mine, I'm the biggest.
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Evelyn Doyle: It's great that we're on the top floor, so Santa can park his reindeer near.
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Maurice Doyle: [the children are playing with only the train tracks and engine of a train set they got for Christmas] Daddy, where's the carriages?
Desmond Doyle: Well son, Santa was a bit strapped for cash this year. Costs a lot of money to feed those elves, you know.
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Evelyn Doyle: [Evelyn's mother is running away from the block of flats with her suitcase]
[Evelyn talking to her doll]
Evelyn Doyle: Mummy's going shopping, Heidi. Do you like her nice new shoes and coat? But it's St Stephen's Day. Mummy, come back, it's St Stephen's Day, the shops are shut!
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Evelyn Doyle: Mummy's gone! She was all dressed up and she went away with a man in a car.
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Desmond Doyle: I never laid a hand to her in anger once, though she gave me just cause for it. Maybe that's where I went wrong.
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Inspector Logan: Mr Doyle, you have no job and no money for your children.
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District Judge: And you have no other source of revenue?
Desmond Doyle: Ah, well sir, my father Henry who's sitting over here, and myself, we're setting up a bit of a tour of the Dublin pubs, like.
District Judge: Surely that would represent expenditure rather than income?
Desmond Doyle: Oh no, Your Honour, we'll be playing music like, for money!
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Henry Doyle: [rays of sunlight come through the window] Look at the rays! Do you know what these are?
Evelyn Doyle: No Grandad.
Henry Doyle: Angel rays!
Evelyn Doyle: Angel rays?
Henry Doyle: Yes! These mean that your guardian angel is reminding you that he's waiting to help you. All you have to do is believe in them.
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Evelyn Doyle: Grandma says she got a postcard from Mummy. She's in a place called Australia. Grandma says it's warm there.
Henry Doyle: Yes, deary, it is. But you tell your grandmother that its not as warm as the place she'll be going next.
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Senior Counsel Mr. Wolfe: You asked God to bless Sister Brigid after hitting you?
Evelyn Doyle: Yes sir.
Senior Counsel Mr. Wolfe: I put it to you that you are lying.
Evelyn Doyle: To tell a lie is against the Eighth Commandment. You're a lawyer, you should know that.
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Sister Brigid: Is God good, just and merciful?
Annette Farrell: Yes, Sister.
Sister Brigid: "Yes" isn't the catechism answer, is it? What does the catechism say?
Annette Farrell: It says...
[pauses, unable to remember]
Sister Brigid: I've had enough of you, Annette Farrell. Now...
[begins to beat Annette with a strap]
Sister Brigid: God is infinitely good...
[beats her again]
Sister Brigid: infinitely just...
[beats her again]
Sister Brigid: and infinitely - What are you saying to me, child?
Evelyn Doyle: I don't think you should do that, Sister. If God is infinitely merciful, he wouldn't want you to do that.
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Desmond Doyle: I wasn't talking to you, Yank. All you're good for's wearing sharp suits, doing fancy deals... and trying to get hands on our women. And our fish!
Evelyn Quotes
Extended Reading
