Quotes by Irish Authors - Page 10

A friend in need is a friend indeed.
Richard Graves
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion enmity worship love but no friendship.
Oscar Wilde
An amiable weakness.
R. B. Sheridan
Friends are the thermometer by which we may judge the temperature of our fortunes.
Lady Marguerite Blessington
It's a grand thing to be able to take your money in your hand and to think no more of it when it slips away from you than you would a trout that would slip back into the stream.
Augusta Gregory
Philosophy ... should not pretend to increase our present stock but make us economists of what we are possessed of.
Oliver Goldsmith
All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted when you find it taken for granted you are unnerved.
Elizabeth Bowen
The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde
Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde
The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing.
George Bernard Shaw
Only the brave know how to forgive. ... A coward never forgave it is not in his nature.
Laurence Sterne
What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do.
George Bernard Shaw
There is no love sincerer than the love of food.
George Bernard Shaw
Tis the last rose of summer. Left blooming alone.
George Moore
No passion so effectively robs the mind of its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
Edmund Burke
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
Edmund Burke
The suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.
Oscar Wilde
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
Oscar Wilde
Fashions after all are only induced epidemics.
George Bernard Shaw
No man has ever lived that had enough of children's gratitude or woman's love.
William Butler Yeats
Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely if ever do they forgive them.
Oscar Wilde
I am married to Beatrice Salkeld a painter. We have no children except me.
Brendan Behan
Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw
I can believe anything provided it is incredible.
Oscar Wilde
It is by faith that poetry as well as devotion soars above this dull earth that imagination breaks through its clouds breathes a purer air and lives in a softer light.
Henry Giles
Disappointment is the nurse of wisdom.
Sir Boyle Roche
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
George Bernard Shaw
Not all who seem to fail have failed indeed. Not all who fail have therefore worked in vain. There is no failure for the good and brave.
Archbishop Trench
Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.
Edward Dowden
The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop WC. Magee
Men are wise in proportion not to their experience but to their capacity for experience.
George Bernard Shaw
Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.
Oscar Wilde
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
George Bernard Shaw
Never despair but if you do work on in despair.
Edmund Burke
Things are in their essence what we choose to make them. A thing is according to the mode in which one looks at it.
Oscar Wilde
So long as one does not despair so long as one doesn't look upon life bitterly things work out fairly well in the end.
George Moore
An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.
George Bernard Shaw
fights you on patriotic principles he robs you on business principles he enslaves you on imperial principles.
George Bernard Shaw
It seems to me that you can go sauntering along for a certain period telling the English some interesting things about themselves and then all at once it feels as if you had stepped on the prongs of a rake.
Patrick Campbell
England and America are two countries separated by the same language.
George Bernard Shaw
The Englishman has all the qualities of a poker except its occasional warmth.
Daniel O'Connell
It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman despise him.
George Bernard Shaw
A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
Oscar Wilde
Education is an admirable thing but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Oscar Wilde
He hasn't an enemy in the world and none of his friends like him.
Oscar Wilde
Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire.
William Butler Yeats
They say fingers were made before forks and hands before knives.
Jonathan Swift
Bread is the staff of life.
Jonathan Swift
An Irish queer: a fellow who prefers women to drink.
Sean O'Faolain
We had gone out there to pass the beautiful day of high summer like true Irishmen - locked in the dark Snug of a public house.
Brendan Behan
The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
William Butler Yeats
For dhrames always go by conthraries my dear.
Samuel Lover
I am only a beer teetotaller not a champagne teetotaller.
George Bernard Shaw
No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.
Elizabeth Bowen
Every dog must have his day.
Jonathan Swift
The most potent and sacred command which can be laid upon any artist is the command: wait.
Iris Murdoch
There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw
The difference between weakness and wickedness is much less than people suppose and the consequences are nearly always the same.
Lady Marguerite Blessington
The difficulty of life is in the choice.
George Moore
For he who lives more lives than one More deaths than one must die.
Oscar Wilde