Quotes by Irish Authors - Page 2

There is no such thing as romance in our day women have become too brilliant nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman.
Oscar Wilde
No man is as anti-feminist as a really feminine woman.
Frank O'Connor
A modest woman dressed out in all her finery is the most tremendous object of the whole creation.
Oliver Goldsmith
The wisdom of our ancestors.
Edmund Burke
It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can.
George Bernard Shaw
Westward the course of empire takes its way.
Bishop Berkeley
I'll fares the land to hastening ills a prey Where wealth accumulates and men decay Princes and Lords may flourish or may fade - A breath can make them as a breath has made - But a bold peasantry their country's pride When once destroy'd can never be supplied.
Oliver Goldsmith
In big houses in which things are done properly there is always the religious element. The diurnal cycle is observed with more feeling when there are servants to do the work.
Elizabeth Bowen
Ordinary riches can be stolen real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
Oscar Wilde
As long as war is regarded as wicked it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar it will cease to be popular.
Oscar Wilde
I'll fares the land to hastening ills of prey Where wealth accumulates and men decay.
Oliver Goldsmith
War never leaves where it found a nation.
Edmund Burke
Most sorts of diversion in men children and other animals are in imitation of fighting.
Jonathan Swift
What the hell difference does it make left or right? There were good men lost on both sides.
Brendan Behan
Man wants but little here below Nor wants that little long.
Oliver Goldsmith
The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
Jonathan Swift
Virtue consists not in abstaining from vice but in not desiring it.
George Bernard Shaw
When men grow virtuous in their old age they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.
Jonathan Swift
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Oscar Wilde
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
Edmund Burke
When one has no design but to speak plain truth he may say a great deal in a very narrow compass.
Richard Steele
All great truths began as blasphemies.
George Bernard Shaw
My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.
George Bernard Shaw
Usually speaking the worst-bred person in company is a young traveller just returned from abroad.
Jonathan Swift
A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can you want?
Oscar Wilde
I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.
George Bernard Shaw
A man travels the world in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
George Moore
A glass is good and a lass is good And a pipe to smoke in cold weather The world is good and the people are good And we're all good fellows together.
John O'Keeffe
May you live all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift
No first step can be really great it must of necessity possess more of prophecy than of achievement nevertheless it is by the first step that a man marks the value not only of his cause but of himself.
Katherine Cecil Thurston
Nobody makes a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little.
Edmund Burke
If we take care of the moments the years will take care of themselves.
Maria Edgeworth
Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win.
Bernadette Devlin
Let time that makes you homely make you sage.
Thomas Parnell
Punctuality is the thief of time.
Oscar Wilde
Florence Farr once said to me "If we could say to ourselves with sincerity 'this passing moment is as good as any I shall ever know ' we could die upon the instant and be united with God."
William Butler Yeats
Autumn arrives in the early morning but spring at the close of a winter's day.
Elizabeth Bowen
There's never an end for the sea.
Samuel Beckett
The present is the now the here through which all future plunges to the past.
James Joyce
Very few men properly speaking live at present but are providing to live another time.
Jonathan Swift
Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde
One man who has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.
George Bernard Shaw
The great advantage of a hotel is that it's a refuge from home life.
George Bernard Shaw
You cannot plan the future by the past.
Edmund Burke
Everyone's future is in reality uncertain and full of unknown treasures from which all may draw unguessed prizes.
Lord Dunsany
There is hope for all of us. Well anyway if you don't die you live through it day in day out.
Mary Beckett
You can never plan the future by the past.
Edmund Burke
Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.
Oscar Wilde
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.
Oscar Wilde
Never resist temptation: prove all things: hold fast that which is good.
George Bernard Shaw
I can resist everything except temptation.
Oscar Wilde
Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.
Oscar Wilde
He who can does. He who can't teaches.
George Bernard Shaw
Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Oscar Wilde
To have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact talk to every woman as if you loved her and to every man as if he bored you.
Oscar Wilde
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
Edmund Burke
He watch'd and wept he pray'd and felt for all.
Oliver Goldsmith
And he gave it for his opinion that whoever could make two ears of corn or two blades of grass to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before would deserve better of mankind and do more essential service to his country than the whole race of politicians put together.
Jonathan Swift
Success covers a multitude of blunders.
George Bernard Shaw
There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.
George Bernard Shaw