Quotes by irish authors

Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become. C. S. Lewis

Life Daily Respect Reality Become Our Adds Our Lives Simply Does Provides Literature Requires Describe Deserts Lives Daily Life Competence Necessary

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will. George Bernard Shaw

You Will Beginning Creation Imagination Create Last Desire Imagine

The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else. George Bernard Shaw

Liar Believe Else Punishment He Least Anyone Anyone Else Cannot Believed

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it. George Bernard Shaw

You Patriotism Superior Country Conviction Others Born Because Were Your

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. George Bernard Shaw

Power Those Observation Got Accurate Commonly Who Cynicism

History isn't just the story of bad people doing bad things. It's quite as much a story of people trying to do good things. But somehow, something goes wrong. C. S. Lewis

Good History People Good Things Bad People Bad Things Bad Somehow Something Wrong Doing Trying Goes Quite Just Story Much Things

I'm doing my best to be mindful about how I'm living: to be kind and patient, and not to impose a bad mood on somebody else. Being mindful is as good a way to be spiritual as anything else. Deirdre O'Kane

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his. Oscar Wilde

Man Women Become All Women Like Does Mothers His Tragedy

At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one's lost self. Brendan Behan

Loneliness Lost Self Powerful Yearning Union Deep Core Innermost

Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ. C. S. Lewis

Faith People Passion Christ Some People Our Guilty Some About Take Share Feel Like Sins Afflictions Anxieties Regard Them Defect

To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect. Oscar Wilde

Intelligence Thoroughly Intellect Expect Expect The Unexpected Unexpected Modern Shows

There is no sin except stupidity. Oscar Wilde

Stupidity Except Sin

A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out. George Bernard Shaw

World Gentleman Out More He Puts Takes Than Who

I wish everyone well, but you need to focus on yourself. You need to stop putting your hand out. Everyone wants hand outs. Everyone wants things for free. You've got to put in the work. You've got to grind. You've got go through the struggle, and you've got to get it. Conor McGregor

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity. George Bernard Shaw

Love Love Is First Only Foolishness First Love Lot Curiosity Little

I'll tell you what I'm grateful for, and that's the clarity of understanding that the most important things in life are health, family and friends, and the time to spend on them. Kenneth Branagh

Life Time Health Family You Grateful Important Understanding Important Things Spend Tell Clarity Most Friends Family And Friends The Most Important Them Things

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation. Oscar Wilde

Everything Way I Can Temptation Only Yield Get Rid Resist