Quotes by irish authors

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

Service You Courage Yourself Mirror Holding See Only Noble Render Friend Up Which Really Your Keep Image

What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts. George Bernard Shaw

Man Assumptions He His May Ascertained Which Acts Believes Creed

Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world. George Bernard Shaw

World Dangerous Matter Old Men Going Happen Them Old Men

The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post. George Bernard Shaw

Love Post Entirely Perfect Perfect Love Affair Love Affair Which

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough. George Bernard Shaw

Time Enough Everybody Everything Later Sooner Sooner Or Later Happens

Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week. George Bernard Shaw

Myself People Made Three Year Few Reputation Think Thinking Once More Week Times Than Few People International Twice Twice A Week Two

The golden rule is that there are no golden rules. George Bernard Shaw

Rule Rules The Golden Rule Golden Golden Rule

The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech. George Bernard Shaw

Conversation Trouble Power She Lacks Her Speech

Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard Shaw

Man Become Way Ability Only Martyrdom Without Famous

My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire. James Joyce

Words Mind Sinking Cold Through Quagmire Polished Stones Her

I am careful about my conduct because I know this cause requires clean men. James Larkin

Cause Men About Clean Know Because Am Conduct Requires Careful

It has always been the aim of royalty and aristocracy to lower the individual liberty and independence of the common people. A baron and a minute-man could not breathe the same air. John Boyle O'Reilly

People Liberty Independence Aim Air Could Individual Individual Liberty Aristocracy Always Been Same Common Common People Breathe Lower Royalty

Of the things which nourish the imagination, humour is one of the most needful, and it is dangerous to limit or destroy it. John Millington Synge

Dangerous Imagination Humour Destroy Most Limit Which Nourish Things

The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit. Jonathan Swift

Success Happy Miserable Power Only Merit Prudence Fortune

I hate the unfairness of injustice. Anybody who thinks they are better than others or 'chosen' or feel they have an entitlement... be it through monarchy, government or money. I think we are all born the same. We are entitled to an equal shot at life. Liam Cunningham

Life Government Injustice Hate Money Entitlement Better Entitled Think Others Born Through Feel Equal Than Same Unfairness Anybody Shot Who Monarchy Chosen Thinks

Love and kindness go hand in hand. Marian Keyes

Love Kindness Go Hand Hand-In-Hand

There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad. Oscar Wilde

Bad Equally Mob Authority Separate Monarch Necessity

Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes. Oscar Wilde

Too Late People Mistakes Sense Too Late Only Never Most Sort Discover Die Common Common Sense Regrets Things Creeping

There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love. Oscar Wilde

Love People Emotions About Something Always To Love Ridiculous Whom

A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies. Oscar Wilde

Man Enemies Too His Choice Careful