Irish Quotes

Welcome to my Irish quotes. I love the Irish accent it just has that lilt that i enjoy hearing. Ireland is a country with a very amazing history and amazing triumphs. Here is my salute to Ireland and all it stands for.

• IRISH QUOTE OF THE PAGE
  Could he not find in his heart the generosity to acknowledge that there is a small nation that stood alone not for one year or two, but for several hundred years against aggression; that endured spoliations, famines, massacres in endless succession; that was clubbed many times into insensibility, but that each time on returning to consciousness took up the fight anew; a small nation that could never be got to accept defeat and has never surrendered her soul?
  Eamon De Valera


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


• You know it's summer in Ireland when the rain gets warmer.
  Hal Roach


• When I get a very generous introduction like that, I explain that I'm emotionally moved, but on the other hand I'm Irish and the Irish are very emotionally moved. My mother is Irish and she cries during beer commercials.
  Barry McCaffrey


• The worst threat to Irish farmers is not foot and mouth disease, but a postal strike.
  Popular saying in Ireland’s rural areas referring to the heavy dependence of Irish farmers of government subsidy checks


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


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


• We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.
  Winston Churchill


• There is, for whatever reason, an international tendency to be well-disposed towards Ireland - a tendency that elevates us beyond our actual standing on the world stage.
  Ivana Bacik


• The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.
  Harold Nicolson


• There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting.
  John Millington Synge


• I think the Irish woman was freed from slavery by bingo. They can go out now, dressed up, with their handbags and have a drink and play bingo. And they deserve it.
  John B. Keane


• 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.
  John McGahern






• For the good are always the merry,Save for an evil chance,And the merry love the fiddle,And the merry love to dance
  W.B. Yeats


• No person knows better than you do that the domination of England is the sole and blighting curse of this country. It is the incubus that sits on our energies, stops the pulsation of the nation’s heart and leaves to Ireland not gay vitality but horrid the convulsions of a troubled dream.
  Daniel O'Connell


• As I walked back to the car, I chatted with an Englishman, who confirmed that, indeed, sheep are dropping into the oceans around Ireland at a regular rate
  Margeret Lynn McLean (commenting on the general lack of fences along cliff edges on Irish farms)


• When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?
  Quentin Crisp


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


• The immigrant's heart marches to the beat of two quite different drums, one from the old homeland and the other from the new. The immigrant has to bridge these two worlds, living comfortably in the new and bringing the best of his or her ancient identity and heritage to bear on life in an adopted homeland.
  Irish President McAleese


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


• I was raised in an Irish-American home in Detroit where assimilation was the uppermost priority. The price of assimilation and respectability was amnesia. Although my great-grandparents were victims of the Great Hunger of the 1840's, even though I was named Thomas Emmet Hayden IV after the radical Irish nationalist exile Thomas Emmet, my inheritance was to be disinherited. My parents knew nothing of this past, or nothing worth passing on.
  Tom Hayden


• Ireland, sir, for good or evil, is like no other place under heaven, and no man can touch its sod or breathe its air without becoming better or worse.
  George Bernard Shaw


• I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt.
  Edna O'Brien


• This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever.
  Sigmund Freud


• Ireland, thou friend of my country in my country's most friendless days, much injured, much enduring land, accept this poor tribute from one who esteems thy worth, and mourns thy desolation.
  George Washington (thanking Ireland for helping America during the revolution)


• The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad. For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad.
  G.K. Chesterton


• It is a curious contradiction, not very often remembered in England, that for many generations the private soldiers of the British Army were largely Irish.
  Cecil Woodham-Smith


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

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