Quotes by Irish Authors - Page 11

You can lose a man like that by your own death but not by his.
George Bernard Shaw
It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody.
Brendan Behan
What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde
Ask me no questions and I'll tell you no fibs.
Oliver Goldsmith
When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.
Oscar Wilde
Critics are like eunuchs in a harem: they know how it's done they've seen it done every day but they're unable to do it themselves.
Brendan Behan
Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world tho' the cant of hypocrites may be the worst the cant of criticism is the most tormenting.
Laurence Sterne
Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world - though the cant of hypocrites ihay be the worst - the cant of criticism is the most tormenting.
Laurence Sterne
It is easy - terribly easy - to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man's spirit is devil's work.
George Bernard Shaw
Yet each man kills the thing he loves By each let this be heard Some do it with a bitter look Some with a flattering word The coward does it with a kiss The brave man with a sword.
Oscar Wilde
The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.
George Bernard Shaw
If England treats her criminals the way she has treated me she doesn't deserve to have any.
Oscar Wilde
In a way winter is the real spring the time when the inner things happen the resurge of nature.
Edna O'Brien
Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
Oscar Wilde
Progress is impossible without change and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
George Bernard Shaw
A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong which is but saying ... that he is wiser today than yesterday.
Jonathan Swift
There is nothing in this world constant but inconstancy.
Jonathan Swift
He who fights and runs away May live to fight another day. But he who is in battle slain Can never rise to fight again.
Oliver Goldsmith
Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win.
Bernadette Devlin
An excuse is a lie guarded.
Jonathan Swift
You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard but by attacking and getting well-hammered yourself.
George Bernard Shaw
He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
Jonathan Swift
You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard but by attacking and getting well hammered yourself.
George Bernard Shaw
The best lack all conviction while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.
William Butler Yeats
She had lost the art of conversation but not unfortunately the power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw
Conscience is a coward and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
Oliver Goldsmith
Complaint is the largest tribute Heaven receives.
Jonathan Swift
All government - indeed every human benefit and enjoyment every virtue and every prudent act - is founded on compromise and barter.
Edmund Burke
If the poor man cannot always get meat the rich man cannot always digest it.
Henry Giles
We are so fond of each other because our ailments are the same.
Jonathan Swift
When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.
Elizabeth Bowen
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
Edmund Burke
She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on her with a pitchfork.
Jonathan Swift
The best way to make children good is to make them happy.
Oscar Wilde
Organized charity scrimped and iced In the name of the cautious statistical Christ.
John Boyle O'Reilly
Self-denial is not a virtue it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.
George Bernard Shaw
Style personality - deliberately adopted and therefore a mask - is the only escape from the hot-faced bargainers and money-changers.
William Butler Yeats
At every single moment of one's life one is going to be no less than what one has been.
Oscar Wilde
Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde
When people shake their heads because we are living in a restless age ask them how they would like to life in a stationary one and do without change.
George Bernard Shaw
For good and evil man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.
Joyce Cary
Always! That is the dreadful word ... it is a meaningless word too.
Oscar Wilde
The first springs of great events like those of great rivers are often mean and little.
Jonathan Swift
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
Oscar Wilde
All professions are a conspiracy against the country.
George Bernard Shaw
I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.
George Bernard Shaw
Mere parsimony is not economy . . . expense and great expense may be an essential part of true economy.
Edmund Burke
The immigrant who comes to Canada really sees the country much more as a whole. He doesn't know the nuances which are so important and so dearly beloved by the Torontonian or the Montrealer.
Brian Moore
A Torontonian is a man who leaves culture to his wife.
Brendan Behan
Canada is a society rather than a nation.
Kildare Dobbs
I won't quarrel with my bread and butter.
Jonathan Swift
Peace is not only better than war but infinitely more arduous.
George Bernard Shaw
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. That is all.
Oscar Wilde
There's none so blind as they that won't see.
Jonathan Swift
Every great man nowadays has his disciples and it is always Judas who writes the biography.
Oscar Wilde
Those evening bells! those evening bells! How many a tale their music tells!
George Moore
There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.
Lady Blessington
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Margaret Hungerford
By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation.
Oscar Wilde