"She had a fondness for Gardenias." Source?

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<p>OldinNewJersey, hang in there. </p>

<p>The quote certainly is ingrained in contemporary Irish popular culture as having been said by Yeats and yes, indeed, it is a big hit on t-shirts.</p>

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The Irish excel at the one-liner and from comedians to playwrights everyone’s got something to say: </p>

<pre><code>* True friends stab you in the front.
Oscar Wilde, author

• My Father had a profound influence on me. He was a lunatic.
  Spike Milligan comedian
• If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks.
  Brendan Behan, author
• Do not do unto others as they should do unto you; their tastes may not be the same.
  George Bernard Shaw, playwright
• Being Irish I, have an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustains me through temporary periods of joy.
  W B Yeats, poet

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