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:
There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.
Though fortune scowl, though prudence interfere,
One thing is certain: Love will triumph here!
What does loveliness avail (if indeed it is mine), if joy of heart fail me, if good fortune fail me?
Rather let it be your object to bequeath to your children a stainless name than a large fortune.
Noble blood is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterise the great.
All that is under heaven, says the sage, runs one law and one fortune.
Friendship needs no words — it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.