Saint Patrick's Day Quotes
No Irish collection sits under this page. It comes from two others, luck and friendship, which is about as close as a mechanical match can get to a day of toasts. The luck page leans on Seneca, Livy and Shakespeare, and on Horace’s complaint about Fortune, so expect fortune in the Roman sense rather than the four-leaf kind.
Two of its entries, from Torquato Tasso, are flagged misattributed. If you want an Irish writer, use the search box. Wilde and Shaw are both on the site.
Most quoted on saint patrick's day:
Nothing but the most exemplary morals can give dignity to a man of small fortune.
How often are we forced to charge fortune with partiality towards the unjust!
I would rather have your friendship than the love of any other woman in the world!
I have wedded the cause of human improvement, staked on it my fortune, my reputation and my life.
Agreement in likes and dislikes—this, and this only, is what constitutes true friendship.
The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
For such is Fortune, that scarcely has she done a good when an evil follows.
Let all the world witness how many different means Fortune employs when she wishes to destroy a man.
Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.