Quotes by irish authors

Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old. Jonathan Swift

Man Age Old Long Live Every Wishes Every Man Desires

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. Oscar Wilde

Man Value Nothing Everything Price Knows Cynic Who

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. Oscar Wilde

Good Man Intelligence Enemies Too Good Looks Characters Looks His Friends Cannot Acquaintances Choice Choose Careful

I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything. Oscar Wilde

Love Relationship Women Men Everything See Give Little Them Lives

When people don't believe in you, you have to believe in yourself. Pierce Brosnan

You Yourself People Believe In Yourself Believe

Disguise our bondage as we will, 'Tis woman, woman, rules us still. Thomas Moore

Woman Women Disguise Will Our Rules Still Tis Us Bondage

And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns. Thomas Moore

Heart First Thorns Always Awake Flowers

Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. O when may it suffice? William Butler Yeats

Heart Long Sacrifice Too Make Stone May Suffice

I'm not going to get somewhere and say, 'OK, I'm done.' Success is never final; I'll just keep on going. The same way as failure never being fatal. Just keep going. I'm going to the stars and then past them. Conor McGregor

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire. George Bernard Shaw

Dancing Horizontal Perpendicular Expression Desire

It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid. George Bernard Shaw

You Dangerous Stupid Unless Sincere Also

A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery. James Joyce

Man Genius Intelligence Mistakes Makes His Discovery Errors Portals

Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize. James Joyce

Art Pleasure Recognize Part Schools Irresponsibility Cannot

Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. Jonathan Swift

Blessed Nothing Shall Never He Disappointed Expects Who

A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart. Jonathan Swift

Wise Man Wise Man Heart Money Head His Should

Happiness is in our own hearts. I have no regrets of anything in the past. I'm totally cheerful and happy, and I think that a lot of your attitude is not in the circumstances you find yourself in, but in the circumstances you make for yourself. Maeve Binchy

If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame. Oscar Wilde

Work Art Ethics Will Beauty Cowardly Own Rich Lesson Complete Those Moral See Vital Strongly More Shame Instincts Terror Aesthetic Than Artistic Who Appeal Fill Whom

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people. Oscar Wilde

Democracy People Simply For The People Means By The People

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection. Oscar Wilde

Art Our Only Through Perfection Realise

Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to. Shane Leslie

Day Every Out Find Make Another Saint Patrick's Day Irishman Goes Speech

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing. William Butler Yeats

Happiness Happy Virtue Pleasure Neither Simply Nor Growing Growth Thing

Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. C. S. Lewis

You Words Word Big Too Otherwise Say About Something Talk Subject Left Very Infinite Infinitely Want Mean Really Use