Irish Author Quotes

Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

Dublin university contains the cream of Ireland: Rich and thick.

Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight.

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

New York is my Lourdes, where I go for spiritual refreshment... a place where you're least likely to be bitten by a wild goat.

You know it is summer in Ireland when the rain gets warmer.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.

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

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

The heart was made to be broken.

When the Irishman is found outside of Ireland in another environment, he very often becomes a respected man. The economic and intellectual conditions that prevail in his own country do not permit the development of individuality. No one who has any self-respect stays in Ireland, but flees afar as though from a country that has undergone the visitation of an angered Jove.

No one who has any self-respect stays in Ireland, but flees afar as though from a country that has undergone the visitation of an angered Jove.

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.

Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.