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:
Britain must now take our hand of friendship or reject it. I do not believe it will be rejected.
For me, chemistry is like organic friendship. You cannot fake it; it’s either there or it is not
to one of which I am attached by bonds of friendship, to other by ties of common origin
... In valour be you like your father,
In fortune be unlike him.