St. Patrick's Day Quotes

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"O Ireland isn't it grand you look--Like a bride in her rich adornin? And with all the pent-up love of my heart I bid you the top o' the mornin!"
-- John Locke "The Exile's Return"
"No human being believes that any other human being has a right to be in bed when he himself is up."
-- Robert Lynd
"Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead."
-- Robert Lynd
"At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely."
-- W. Somerset Maugham
"When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously tenacious."
-- Edna O'Brien (1932– )
"A lament in one ear, maybe, but always a song in the other."
-- Sean O'Casey
"The whole worl's in a state o' chassis."
-- Sean O.Casey (1884–1964)
"Eternal is the fact that the human creature born in Ireland and brought up in its air is Irish. I have lived for twenty years in Ireland and for seventy-two in England; but the twenty came first, and in Britain I am still a foreigner and shall die one."
-- George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950 )
"Why should you never iron a 4-leaf clover? You don't want to press your luck."
-- Daryl Stout
"Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own."
-- Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)
"Books, the children of the brain."
-- Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)
"There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting."
-- John Millington Synge (1871–1909)
"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
"Saint Patrick was a gentleman...Who through strategy and stealth...Drove all the snakes from Ireland...Here's a drinkee to his health! But not too many drinkees...Lest we lose ourselves and then...Forget the good Saint Patrick...And see them snakes again!"
-- Unknown
"Anyone acquainted with Ireland knows that the morning of St. Patrick's Day consists of the night of the 17th of March flavored strongly with the morning of the 18th."
-- Unknown
"Oh, Paddy, dear, an' did ye hear the news that's goin' round?"
-- Unknown
"If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society would be quite civilized."
-- Oscar Wilde
"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go."
-- Oscar Wilde
"I am still of opinion that only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mood; sex and the dead."
-- W.B. Yeats
"The intellect is forced to choose: Perfection of the life, or of the work."
-- W. B. Yeats
"Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire."
-- W. B. Yeats