Quotes by Irish Authors - Page 9

After all there is but one race - humanity.
George Moore
I was taught when I was young that if people would only love one another all would be well with the world. This seemed simple and very nice but I found when I tried to put it in practice not only that other people were seldom lovable but that I was not very lovable myself.
George Bernard Shaw
The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them but to be indifferent to them that's the essence of inhumanity.
George Bernard Shaw
With three or more people there is something bold in the air: direct things get said which would frighten two people alone and conscious of each inch of their nearness to one another. To be three is to be in public - you feel safe.
Elizabeth Bowen
Each of us keeps battened down inside himself a sort of lunatic giant -impossible socially but full-scale. It's the knockings and batterings we sometimes hear in each other that keep our intercourse from utter banality.
Elizabeth Bowen
Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.
Jonathan Swift
Hope like the gleaming taper's light adorns and cheers our way And still as darker grows the night emits a lighter ray.
Oliver Goldsmith
Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears not to oust them.
Vincent NcNabb
A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
George Moore
History is a pact between the dead the living and the yet unborn.
Edmund Burke
The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood.
George Bernard Shaw
Martyrdom - the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw
You cannot create genius. All you can do is nurture it.
Ninette de Valois
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
George Bernard Shaw
Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.
George Moore
In Heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw
When a love comes to an end weaklings cry efficient ones instantly find another love and the wise already have one in reserve.
Oscar Wilde
What the heart knows today the head will understand tomorrow.
James Stephens
Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.
George Bernard Shaw
Give a man health and a course to steer and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.
George Bernard Shaw
Happiness is a rare plant that seldom takes root on earth-few ever enjoyed it except for a brief period the search after it is rarely rewarded by the discovery but there is an admirable substitute for it... a contented spirit.
Lady Marguerite Blessington
The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not.
George Bernard Shaw
In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants and the other is getting it.
Oscar Wilde
Joy is the will which labours which overcomes obstacles which knows triumph.
William Butler Yeats
The human heart at whatever age opens only to the heart that opens in return.
Maria Edgeworth
Happiness consists not in having much but in being content with little.
Lady Marguerite Blessington
This is true joy of life-being used for a purpose that is recognized by yourself as a mighty one ... instead of being a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.
George Bernard Shaw
The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.
George Bernard Shaw
Happiness and beauty are by-products. Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty.
George Bernard Shaw
Virtue like a dowerless beauty has more admirers than followers.
Lady Marguerite Blessington
There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.
Lady Marguerite Blessington
Custom reconciles us to everything.
Edmund Burke
Habit is a great deadener.
Samuel Beckett
I would rather sleep in the southern corner of a little country churchyard than in the tombs of the Capulets.
Edmund Burke
Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants.
Edmund Burke
The art of government is the organization of idolatry.
George Bernard Shaw
What some invent the rest enlarge.
Jonathan Swift
I heard the little bird say so.
Jonathan Swift
There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about and that is not being talked about.
Oscar Wilde
A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
George Bernard Shaw
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
My only policy is to profess evil and do good.
George Bernard Shaw
Too long a sacrifice Can make a stone of the heart.
William Butler Yeats
Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
George Bernard Shaw
Beware of the man whose God is in the skies.
George Bernard Shaw
God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.
Laurence Sterne
We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.
Oscar Wilde
Pleasure is the only thing to live for. Nothing ages like happiness.
Oscar Wilde
Use your health even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die do not outlive yourself.
George Bernard Shaw
This is true joy of life-the being used for a purpose that is recognized by yourself as a right one instead of being a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.
George Bernard Shaw
Well is it known that ambition can creep as well as soar.
Edmund Burke
Silences have a climax when you have got to speak.
Elizabeth Bowen
The man who will not execute his resolutions when they are fresh upon him can have no hope from them afterwards they will be dissipated lost and perish in the hurry and scurry of the world or sunk in the slough of indolence.
Maria Edgeworth
To make a fine gentleman several trades are required but chiefly a barber.
Oliver Goldsmith
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
Oscar Wilde
When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
Jonathan Swift
In real friendship the judgment the genius the prudence of each party become the common property of both.
Maria Edgeworth
111 company is like a dog who dirts those most whom he loves best.
Jonathan Swift
Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.
Robert Lynd
The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.
George Bernard Shaw