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:
Why don't you come up sometime and see me? … Come on up, I'll tell your fortune.
To make a fortune some assistance from fate is essential. Ability alone is insufficient.
Never grieve for me if it is my good fortune to die with my boots on. That's what I most hope for.
From such honor and such a height of fortune am I, thus fallen to earth, cast down amongst mortals.
Ambition is ever tempered by experience. Otherwise, fortune makes fools of us all.
Come in peace to my home, Tan-Tan. And when you go, go in friendship.
Away with delay; the chance of great fortune is short-lived.
Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed (from friendship).
Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide,
Or gave his father grief but when he died.
The bones of the Dead will be seen to govern the fortunes of him who moves them.
There is a deep nick in Fortune's restless wheel
For each man's good.