Irish Author Quotes:

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

- Samuel Beckett

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Encouraging, Self Determination, Try Again

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

- Hal Roach

topic: Summer, Rain, Ireland, Irish Author, Irish Proverbs

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

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Witty, Irish Author, Motivational Recovery

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

- William Butler Yeats

topic: Joy, Tragedy, Abiding, Irish Author, Being Irish

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

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Funny, Travel, Book, Inspirational Adventure, Inspirational Adventure Time

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

- Oscar Wilde

source: Lady Windermere's Fan act 3 (1892)

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Graduation, Shoot For The Moon, Individual Differences

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

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Funny, Clever, Hipster, Mimicry, Very Clever

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

- Oscar Wilde

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Funny, Happiness, Hilarious, Spiritual Happiness, Insults You

Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Life, Military History, Military Soldier

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

- Sean O'Casey

topic: Inspirational, Funny Life, Drama, Irish Author, Irish Proverbs

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

- Samuel Beckett

topic: Funny, Hilarious, Dublin, Irish Author, Ireland And The Irish

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Love, Life, Confidence, Humorous Love, Inspirational Romance

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

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Witty, Modern Journalism, Irish Author

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

- Brendan Behan

source: The Hostage act 1 (1958)

topic: Life, Absence, Court, Irish Author, Being Irish

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

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Book, Beer, Self, Irish Author, Wit And Humor

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.

- James Joyce

source: James Joyce (1959). “Critical writings”

topic: Country, Men, Self, Irish Author, Irishmen

The heart was made to be broken.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Moving On, Break Up, Broken Heart, Irish Author, My Heart Is Broken

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

- James Joyce

topic: Life, Spiritual, Mistake, Making Mistakes And Learning From Them, My Mistakes

The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility!

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Simple, Honor, Modern Life, Life Is Simple, Modern Literature

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

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Graduation, Education, Time, Unschooling, Grad

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.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Inspirational, Good Night, Dream, Live Your Dreams, Irish Author

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.

- James Joyce

source: James Joyce (2016). “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”, p.2236, e-artnow

topic: Country, Anger, Self, Irish Author, Irishmen

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

- William Butler Yeats

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Inspiration And Motivation, Entrepreneurial Spirit

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.

- Brendan Behan

topic: Spiritual, New York, Humorous, Irish Author, Lourdes

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

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Funny, Humor, Irish Author, Irish Proverbs, Epigrams

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

- James Joyce

topic: Reading, Writing, Language, Irish Author, Previous Life