Quotes by Irish/Ireland authors (page 22)

"Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other"

Oliver Goldsmith, Poet

"People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy"

Oliver Goldsmith, Poet

"Our greatest glory consists not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall"

Oliver Goldsmith, Poet

"On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting"

Oliver Goldsmith, Poet

"Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues"

Oliver Goldsmith, Poet

"Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long"

Oliver Goldsmith, Poet

"Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations"

Oliver Goldsmith, Poet

"Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning"

Oliver Goldsmith, Poet

"Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law"

Oliver Goldsmith, Poet

"If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales"

Oliver Goldsmith, Poet

"I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population"

Oliver Goldsmith, Poet

"I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine"

Oliver Goldsmith, Poet

"Honour sinks where commerce long prevails"

Oliver Goldsmith, Poet

"Every absurdity has a champion to defend it"

Oliver Goldsmith, Poet

"Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet"

Oliver Goldsmith, Poet

"Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse"

Oliver Goldsmith, Poet

"Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same"

Oliver Goldsmith, Poet

"Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw"

Oliver Goldsmith, Poet

"As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease"

Oliver Goldsmith, Poet

"All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little"

Oliver Goldsmith, Poet

"A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond"

Oliver Goldsmith, Poet

"A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future"

Oliver Goldsmith, Poet

"My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them"

Bono, Musician

"Mr. James Joyce is a great man who is entirely without taste"

Rebecca West, Author

"It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster"

Rebecca West, Author

"I wonder if we are all wrong about each other, if we are just composing unwritten novels about the people we meet?"

Rebecca West, Author

"A copy of the universe is not what is required of art; one of the damned things is ample"

Rebecca West, Author

"Rock 'n' roll is ridiculous. It's absurd. In the past, U2 was trying to duck that. Now we're wrapping our arms around it and giving it a great big kiss"

Bono, Musician

"It's so sweet, I feel like my teeth are rotting when I listen to the radio"

Bono, Musician

"It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion"

Rebecca West, Author

"Because hypocrisy stinks in the nostrils one is likely to rate it as a more powerful agent for destruction than it is"

Rebecca West, Author

"Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse"

Rebecca West, Author

"Ethiopia didn't just blow my mind; it opened my mind. Anyway, on our last day at this orphanage a man handed me his baby and said, 'Would you take my son with you?' He knew, in Ireland, that his son would live, and that in Ethiopia, his son would die"

Bono, Musician

"Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another"

Bono, Musician

"U2 is an original species... there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone"

Bono, Musician

"As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world. I have a chance to do both"

Bono, Musician

"You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what's happening in Africa, and if we're honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else"

Bono, Musician

"What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing. You see, it used to be that if you wanted to make a record of a song, you needed a studio and a producer. Now, you need a laptop"

Bono, Musician

"To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater"

Bono, Musician

"So what we're talking about here is human rights. The right to live like a human. The right to live, period. And what we're facing in Africa is an unprecedented threat to human dignity and equality"

Bono, Musician

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Quotes by Irish authors