Best Irish Author Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

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

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

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Book:The Complete Works of James Joyce: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Poetry, Essays & Letters: Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Finnegan’s Wake, Dubliners, The Cat and the Devil, Exiles, Chamber Music, Pomes Penyeach, Stephen Hero, Giacomo Joyce, Critical Writings & more

Source: The Complete Works of James Joyce: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Poetry, Essays & Letters: Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Finnegan’s Wake, Dubliners, The Cat and the Devil, Exiles, Chamber Music, Pomes Penyeach, Stephen Hero, Giacomo Joyce, Critical Writings & more

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

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Author:Sean O'Casey

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

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Author:Samuel Beckett

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

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Author:Samuel Beckett

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

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Author:Brendan Behan

“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.”

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Author:Brendan Behan

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

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Author:George Bernard Shaw

“Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.”

Source: The Happy Prince

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

“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.”

Source: Oscar Wilde - The Major Works

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

Source: Epigrams of Oscar Wilde

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

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Author:Oscar Wilde

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

“To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.”

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

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Book:The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde

Source: The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”

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

Source: The Importance of Being Earnest

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

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

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Author:William Butler Yeats

“The heart was made to be broken.”

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

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Book:The Prose of Oscar Wilde

Source: The Prose of Oscar Wilde

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

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Author:Hal Roach

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

Source: Oscar Wilde - The Major Works

“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.”

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Book:Critical Writings

Source: Critical Writings

“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.”

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Book:The Complete Works of James Joyce: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Poetry, Essays & Letters: Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Finnegan’s Wake, Dubliners, The Cat and the Devil, Exiles, Chamber Music, Pomes Penyeach, Stephen Hero, Giacomo Joyce, Critical Writings & more

Source: The Complete Works of James Joyce: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Poetry, Essays & Letters: Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Finnegan’s Wake, Dubliners, The Cat and the Devil, Exiles, Chamber Music, Pomes Penyeach, Stephen Hero, Giacomo Joyce, Critical Writings & more

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