Quotes by Irish Authors - Page 8

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy is the best bred in the company.
Jonathan Swift
A wise woman will always let her husband have her way.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Man wants but little here below Nor wants that little long.
Oliver Goldsmith
The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed but that he cannot believe anyone else.
George Bernard Shaw
Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry.
Oliver Goldsmith
To love her was a liberal education.
Richard Steele
But there's nothing half so sweet in life As love's young dream.
George Moore
The fickleness of the woman I love is equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.
George Bernard Shaw
Love in France is a comedy in England a tragedy in Italy an opera seria and in Germany a melodrama.
Marguerite Blessington
Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
George Bernard Shaw
Respect is love in plain clothes.
Frankie Byrne
Wine comes in at the mouth and love comes in at the eye that's all we shall know for truth before we grow old and die.
William Butler Yeats
It is assumed that the woman must wait motionless until she is wooed. That is how the spider waits for the fly.
George Bernard Shaw
The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.
George Bernard Shaw
The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
Oscar Wilde
Grammar is the logic of speech even as logic is the grammar of reason.
Richard Trench
Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.
Elizabeth Bowen
The short story is the art form that deals with the individual when there is no longer a society to absorb him and when he is compelled to exist as it were by his own inner light.
Frank O'Connor
A literary movement consists of five or six people who live in the same town and hate each other cordially.
George Moore
Every time a man smiles and much more when he laughs it adds something to his fragment of life.
Laurence Sterne
It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble how hopeless the outlook how muddled the tangle how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all. If only you could love enough you would be the happiest and most powerful being in the world.
Emmet Fox
Joy is the will which labors which overcomes obstacles which knows triumph.
William Butler Yeats
May you live all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift
Men know life too early women know life too late.
Oscar Wilde
Every life is many days day after day. We walk through ourselves meeting robbers ghosts giants old men young men wives widows brothers-in-love. But always meeting ourselves.
James Joyce
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
Oscar Wilde
For he who lives more lives than one more deaths than one must die.
Oscar Wilde
Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
William Butler Yeats
This is the true joy in life the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap.
George Bernard Shaw
When the world has once begun to use us ill and afterwards continues the same treatment with less scruple or ceremony as men do to a whore.
Jonathan Swift
Man wants but little here below nor wants that little long.
Oliver Goldsmith
The effect of liberty on individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do before we risk congratulations.
Edmund Burke
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
Edmund Burke
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.
John Philpot Curran
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
George Bernard Shaw
And still they gazed and still the wonder grew That one small head should carry all it knew.
Oliver Goldsmith
A learned man is an idler who kills time by study.
George Bernard Shaw
The English laws punish vice the Chinese laws do more they reward virtue.
Oliver Goldsmith
Laws grind the poor and rich men rule the law.
Oliver Goldsmith
In England justice is open to all - like the Ritz Hotel.
Sir James Mathew
No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another.
George Bernard Shaw
One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.
Robert Lynd
I am not young enough to know everything.
Oscar Wilde
Lord! I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
Jonathan Swift
The cold neutrality of an impartial judge.
Edmund Burke
The newspapers! Sir they are the most villainous - licentious - abominable - infernal - not that I ever read them - no - I make it a rule never to look into a newspaper.
R. B. Sheridan
When Erin first rose from the dark-swelling flood God blessed the green island he saw it was good. The Emerald of Europe it sparkled and shone In the ring of this world the most precious stone.
William Drennan
Whether on the scaffold high. Or on the battle-field we die Oh what matter when for Erin dear we fall.
T. D. Sullivan
The intellect of man is forced to choose Perfection of the life or of the work.
William Butler Yeats
To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.
Oscar Wilde
. . . 'twill turn your eyeballs black and blue.
Brendan Behan
Life is not governed by will or intention. Life is a question of nerves and fibers and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams.
Oscar Wilde
People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
William Butler Yeats
Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.
George Bernard Shaw
We set ourselves to bite the hand that feeds us.
Edmund Burke
People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy after.
Oliver Goldsmith
A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of Hell.
George Bernard Shaw
I hope you have not been leading a double life pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.
Oscar Wilde
You cannot put a rope around the neck of an idea: you cannot put an idea up against a barrack-square wall and riddle it with bullets: you cannot confine it in the strongest prison cell that your slaves could ever build.
Seán O'Casey
There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel that no one else has the right to blame us.
Oscar Wilde