"Way a wee screwed up protestant face and a head a black hair a was born, in a state of original sin. Me Ma didn't like me, but whose to blame the poor woman - sure a didn't look lik a catholic wain at all." Frances Molloy
The intellect is forced to choose: Perfection of the life, or of the work. W. B. Yeats
"A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces but also by the men it honors, the men it remembers." John F. Kennedy
I think the Irish woman was freed from slavery by bingo.... They can go out now, dressed up, with their handbags and have a drink and play bingo. And they deserve it." John B. Keane
"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." Oliver Goldsmith
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations. George Bernard Shaw
I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper, and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer. Brendan Behan
When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Ireland. J. P. Dunleavy
A life making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing at all. G.B. Shaw
I'm troubled, I'm dissatisfied. I'm Irish! Marianne Moore
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go. Oscar Wilde
No human being believes that any other human being has a right to be in bed when he himself is up. Robert Lynd
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
Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead. Robert Lynd
All I ever seemed to get was the kind of girl who had a special dispensation from Rome to wear the thickest part of her legs below the knee. Hugh Leonard
There is an Irish way of paying compliments as though they were irresistible truths which makes what would otherwise be an impertinence delightful. Katherine Tynan Hinkson
A lament in one ear, maybe, but always a song in the other. Sean O'Casey
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely. W. Somerset Maugham
One wonders in this place, why anyone is left in Dublin, or London, or Paris where it would be better, one would think to live in a tent or hut, with this magnificent sea and sky, and to breathe this wonderful air which is like wine in one's teeth. J. M. Synge
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire. W. B. Yeats
Newspapers are unable, seemingly, to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation. G.B Shaw
A man who loses his money gains, at the least, experience, and sometimes, something better. G.B Shaw
The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor. He takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them. G.B Shaw
Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not. G.B Shaw
(ELLY...Elisi Eli)
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