Irish Quotes And Sayings

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“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.”
– Oscar Wilde

“What they like is to be a man’s last romance.”
– Oscar Wilde

“A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone’s feelings unintentionally.”
– Oscar Wilde

“The play was a great success but the audience was a disaster.”
– Oscar Wilde

“There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Which prisoners call the sky”
– Oscar Wilde (A The Ballad of Reading Gaol)

“One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that, would tell one anything.”
– Oscar Wilde (A Woman of No Importance)

“I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read on the train.”
– Oscar Wilde (The Importance of being Earnest)

“The good end happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.”
– Oscar Wilde (The Importance of being Earnest)

“A woman will flirt with anybody in the world as long as other people are looking on.”
– Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray)

“As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her daughters, she is perfectly satisfied.”
– Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray)

“I love scandals about other people, but scandals about myself don’t interest me. They have not got the charm of novelty.”
– Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray)

“Murder is always a mistake…One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.”
– Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray)

“There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.”
– Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray)

“An cinniúnt, is dócha: féach an féileacán úd thall atá ag foluain os cionn mo choinnle. Ní fada go loiscfear a sciatháin mhaiseacha: cá bhfios dúinne nach bhfuil a fhios sin aige, freisin?”
– Pádraic Ó Conaire, An Chéad Chloch

“Tír gan teanga, tír gan anam. A country without a language is a country without a soul.”
– Pádraig Pearse

“Cad é an mhaith dom eagla a bheith orm? Ní shaorfadh eagla duine ón mbás, dar ndóigh.”
– Peig Sayers, An Old Woman’s Reflections

“And it is the English, specifically, who are the targets of this. Few Americans have heard of Wales. All of them have heard of Ireland and many of them think they are Irish. Scotland gets a sort of free pass, especially since Braveheart re-established the Scots’ anti-English credentials among the ignorant millions who get their history off the TV.”
– Peter Hitchens

“Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“For ye, my love, abide with me here.”
– Richelle E. Goodrich

“Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead.”
– Robert Lynd

“No human being believes that any other human being has a right to be in bed when he himself is up.”
– Robert Lynd

“The earth makes a sound as of sighs and the last drops fall from the emptied cloudless sky. A small boy, stretching out his hands and looking up at the blue sky, asked his mother how such a thing was possible. Fuck off, she said.”
– Samuel Beckett

“All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.”
– Samuel Beckett

“Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.”
– Samuel Butler

“The Irish are a fair people; they never speak well of one another.”
– Samuel Johnson

“The Irish seem to have more fire about them than the Scots.”
– Sean Connery

“A lament in one ear, maybe, but always a song in the other.”
– Sean O’Casey

“All the world’s a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.”
– Sean O’Casey

“Lily–indeed, a most beautiful name. Now tell me, he stared pointedly at her hand, I see no ring that another has claimed you as his, so my confidence is strengthened. Look at your cards again, milady, and tell me if you see me in your future…”
– Shannon MacLeod, The Celtic Knot

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