Quotes by Irish Authors - Page 7

The best brought-up children are those who have seen their parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the parents' first duty.
George Bernard Shaw
He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
Jonathan Swift
Pain and pleasure like light and darkness succeed each other.
Laurence Sterne
There is a courageous wisdom there is also a false reptile prudence the result not of caution but of fear.
Edmund Burke
The whole art of life is knowing the right time to say things.
Maeve Binchy
Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.
Elizabeth Bowen
The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.
George Bernard Shaw
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Margaret Wolfe Hungerford
To most of us the real life is the life we do not lead.
Oscar Wilde
When you don't have any money the problem is food. When you have money it's sex. When you have both it's health. If everything is simply jake then you're frightened of death.
J.P. Donleavy
Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens
Our laws make law impossible our liberties destroy all freedom our property is organized robbery our morality an impudent hypocrisy our wisdom is administered by inexperienced or mal-experienced dupes our power wielded by cowards and weaklings and our honour false in all its points. I am an enemy of the existing order for good reasons.
George Bernard Shaw
Pessimist - one who when he has the choice of two evils chooses both.
Oscar Wilde
Times of stress and difficulty are seasons of opportunity when the seeds of progress are sown.
Thomas F. Woodlock
All empty souls tend to extreme opinion.
William Butler Yeats
I thought I'd begin by reading a poem by Shakespeare but then I thought Why should I? He never reads any of mine.
Spike Milligan
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
George Bernard Shaw
The moment we pass out of our habits we lose all sense of permanency and routine.
George Moore
Habit is not mere subjugation it is a tender tie when one remembers habit it seems to have been happiness.
Elizabeth Bowen
A day's work is a day's work neither more nor less and the man who does it needs a day's sustenance a night's repose and due leisure whether he be painter or ploughman.
George Bernard Shaw
Men talk of killing time while time quietly kills them.
Dion Boucicault
May you live all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift
To become the spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.
Oscar Wilde
Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
Oliver Goldsmith
You can never plan the future by the past.
Edmund Burke
Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are.
Oscar Wilde
A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.
George Bernard Shaw
The cold neutrality of an impartial judge.
Edmund Burke
There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.
Robert Lynd
Hell is full of musical amateurs.
George Bernard Shaw
The harp that once through Tara's halls The soul of music shed Now hangs as mute on Tara's walls As if that soul were fled.
George Moore
From Mozart I learnt to say important things in a conversational way.
George Bernard Shaw
As long as I have a want I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.
George Bernard Shaw
As long as I have a want I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.
George Bernard Shaw
Praise is the only gift for which people are really grateful.
Lady Marguerite Blessington
Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
Oscar Wilde
Discontent is the first step in progress. No one knows what is in him till he tries and many would never try if they were not forced to.
Basil W. Maturin
Some people are molded by their admirations others by their hostilities.
Elizabeth Bowen
Morality is not respectability.
George Bernard Shaw
Only that which does not teach which does not cry out which does not condescend which does not explain is irresistible.
William Butler Yeats
How like a queen comes forth the lonely Moon From the slow opening curtains of the clouds Walking in beauty to her midnight throne!
George Croly
An election is a moral horror as bad as a battle except for the blood a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.
George Bernard Shaw
Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.
Spike Milligan
When I was young I thought money was the most important thing in life. Now that I'm old - I know it is.
Oscar Wilde
Money can't buy friends but you can get a better class of enemy.
Spike Milligan
By gnawing through a dyke even a rat may drown a nation.
Edmund Burke
Men become old but they never become good.
Oscar Wilde
Celibacy bestows on a man the qualified freedom of a besieged city where one sometimes has to eat rats.
Sean O'Faolain
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
Oscar Wilde
I wish Adam had died with all his ribs in his body.
Dion Boucicault
The Right Honorable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.
R. B. Sheridan
Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are.
Oscar Wilde
Our memories are independent of our wills. It is not so easy to forget.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us.
Oscar Wilde
Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.
George Bernard Shaw
I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worthwhile.
George Bernard Shaw
Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
Oscar Wilde
Men marry because they are tired women because they are curious: both are disappointed.
Oscar Wilde
You don't learn to hold your own by standing on guard but by attacking and getting well hammered yourself.
George Bernard Shaw
The whole world is strewn with snares traps gins and pitfalls for the capture of men by women.
George Bernard Shaw