Ireland And The Irish Quotations

It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody.

Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.

If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks.

I used to go missing a lot... Miss Canada, Miss United Kingdom, Miss World.

Whether it be a matter of personal relations within a marriage or political initiatives within a peace process, there is no sure-fire do-it-yourself kit.

I had that stubborn streak, the Irish in me I guess.

There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting.

The Irish seem to have more fire about them than the Scots.

The Irish gave the bagpipes to the Scotts as a joke, but the Scotts haven't seen the joke yet.

I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.

Dublin university contains the cream of Ireland: Rich and thick.

Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.

I'm Irish. I think about death all the time.

I have a thing for red-haired Irish boys, as we know.

Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

Why should Ireland be treated as a geographical fragment of England - Ireland is not a geographical fragment, but a nation.

When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously tenacious.

Irishness is not primarily a question of birth or blood or language; it is the condition of being involved in the Irish situation, and usually of being mauled by it.

You know it is summer in Ireland when the rain gets warmer.

Ireland is a peculiar society in the sense that it was a nineteenth century society up to about 1970 and then it almost bypassed the twentieth century.

A Kerry footballer with an inferiority complex is one who thinks he's just as good as everybody else.

An Irishman can be worried by the consciousness that there is nothing to worry about.

Put an Irishman on the spit and you can always get another Irishman to turn him.

Beware of the man whose God is in the skies.

The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.

And the merry love the fiddle, and the merry love to dance.