Mary Boyle: Me poor little child! It'll have no father!
Mrs. Boyle: Ah, sure, it'll have what's better -- it'll have two mothers.


--Maire O'Neill (as Mrs. Maisie Madigan) in Juno and the Paycock

Mrs. Boyle: Ah, what can God do agen the stupidity o' men!


--Maire O'Neill (as Mrs. Maisie Madigan) in Juno and the Paycock

Mrs. Boyle: Don't be actin' as if you couldn't pull a wing out of a dead bee.


--Maire O'Neill (as Mrs. Maisie Madigan) in Juno and the Paycock

Mrs. Boyle: It's miraculous. Whenever he senses a job in front of him, his legs begin to fail him.


--Maire O'Neill (as Mrs. Maisie Madigan) in Juno and the Paycock

Mrs. Boyle: Oh, God, isn't there even one middlin' honest man left in th' world?


--Maire O'Neill (as Mrs. Maisie Madigan) in Juno and the Paycock

Mrs. Boyle: Your fatherly care never troubled the poor girl.


--Maire O'Neill (as Mrs. Maisie Madigan) in Juno and the Paycock

Mrs. Madigan: Me beautiful dry-land sailor, I'll teach you to be swankin' it like a paycock on Maisie Madigan's money. I'll pull some o' th' gorgeous feathers out o' your tail.


--Maire O'Neill (as Mrs. Maisie Madigan) in Juno and the Paycock

[last lines]
Mrs. Boyle: Maybe I wasn't sorry enough for poor Mrs. Tancred when her son was found as my Johnny's apt to been found now. But it's well I remember all she said -- an' it's my turn to say it now. What were the pains I suffered, Johnny, bringin' you into the world to carry you to your cradle, to the pains I suffer now bringing you out o' the world to carry you to your grave! Mother o' God, Mother o' God, have pity on us all! Blessed Virgin, where were you when me darlin' son was riddled with bullets, when me darlin' son was riddled with bullets? O sacred Heart o' Jesus, take away our hearts o' stone, and give us hearts o' flesh! Take away this murderin' hate, an' give us--give us Thine own--Thine own eternal love!


--Maire O'Neill (as Mrs. Maisie Madigan) in Juno and the Paycock