Our Irish blunders are never blunders of the heart.

Fortune’s wheel never stands still the highest point is therefore the most perilous

And all the young ladies said that a love-match was the only thing for happiness, where the parties could anyway afford it.

Come when you’re called And do as you’re bid; Shut the door after you And you’ll never be chid

Business was his pleasure; pleasure was his business.

Business was his aversion; Pleasure was his business.

An orator is the worse person to tell a plain fact . . .

The bore is usually considered a harmless creature, or of that class of irrationa bipeds who hurt only themselves.

The law, in our case, seems to make the right; and the very reverse ought to be done – the right should make the law

First and foremost, they had the curses of the country: and Sir Murtagh Rackrent, the new heir, in the next place, on account of this affront to the body, refused to pay a shilling of...

Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property

Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget.

How success changes the opinion of men!

When one illusion vanishes, another shall appear, and, still leading me forward towards an horizon that retreats as I advance, the happy prospect of futurity shall vanish only with my existence.

The prevailing taste of the public for anecdote has been censured and ridiculed by critics, who aspire to the character of superior wisdom: but if we consider it in a proper point of view, this...

The human heart, at whatever age, opens to the heart that opens in return.

When people are warm, they cannot stand picking terms.

I’ve a great fancy to see my own funeral afore I die.