Ireland Quotes · Page 5

“Go back to bed, Cowan. I want no promises from you.”

— Sandi Layne

To be Irish is to know that in the end the world will break your heart.

— Daniel Patrick Moynihan

I'm always happy to be in Ireland in general, it's one of my favorite places.

— Lindsay Ellis

Born in Russia, forged in Ireland, they don't make them like this anymore.

— Artem Lobov

We really need to come behind and press for marriage equality in Northern Ireland.

— Leo Varadkar

Long life to you, a wet mouth, and death in Ireland.

— Anonymous

Ireland's just a place...people go there all the time.

— Crispin Glover

[Ireland is a] country peopled by peasants, priests and pixies.

— Robert Kilroy-Silk

I'm disrespectful towards authority. I think the prime minister of Ireland is a gobshite

— Michael O'Leary

Well I think it has always been a mistake to reduce the peace process in Ireland to a decommissioning process.

— Martin McGuinness

I grew up in very rural Ireland. The Internet was kind of a connection to the greater world. It had a lot…

— Patrick Collison

The last thing we want to see, given the success of the peace process, is the return of installations along the Irish…

— Martin McGuinness

My ultimate dream would be for Derry City to become champions of an all-Ireland league in a united Ireland.

— Martin McGuinness

We Irish are born dreamers; sometimes we never wake up at all, and then we're counted failures.

— Katherine Cecil Thurston

The poor old Duke [of Wellington]! What shall I say of him? To be sure he was born in Ireland, but being…

— Daniel O'Connell

Gemma Austin, Phelim O'Hagan and Chris McKlurg... Northern Ireland produces some amazing chefs.

— Andi Oliver

The master says it’s a glorious thing to die for the Faith and Dad says it’s a glorious thing to die for…

— Frank McCourt

In Egypt the staff was rendered as a shepherd's crook that was a symbol for the pharaohs, the Druids of Egypt. The…

— Michael Tsarion

Why are Americans so fascinated by Ireland?” Keith asked... “you all think you’re Irish. What’s the appeal? Do you like the accent…

— Maureen Johnson

My dad came over from Ireland when he was 13 and lived on the streets, working on building sites, and has just…

— Amanda Hale

In coming to that agreement, my party had a clear philosophy throughout. In Northern Ireland, we should have institutions that respected the…

— John Hume

Ireland is not at all a simple place, and in many ways it is spare and sad. It has no wealth, no…

— Shana Alexander

My job now, as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, is to take this process forward, and that I'm determined to do,…

— Peter Hain

“It is not to political leaders our people must look, but to themselves. Leaders are but individuals, and individuals are imperfect, liable…

— Michael Collins

'A Naval History of Britain' which begins in the 7th century has to explain what it means by Britain. My meaning is…

— Nicholas Rodger

“What do we do if we come across trouble, sir?' Cahill asked, slapping at a fly. 'As much as I enjoy giving…

— David Cook

“...we have seen that the priests regard the state as an enemy to be exploited, it is only natural that our politicians…

— Liam O'Flaherty

Ireland is such an amazing country, and I have this little dream in the back of my head that someday I'll end…

— Anne Hathaway

“I painlessly came to realize that the reverence I felt for the holiness of life is not ever likely to be entirely…

— Eudora Welty

A daughter of a King of Ireland, heard A voice singing on a May Eve like this, And followed half awake and…

— William Butler Yeats

A Russian should rejoice if Poland, the Baltic Provinces, Finland, Armenia, should be separated, freed from Russia; so with an Englishman in…

— Leo Tolstoy

The Irish landowner, partly from laziness but also from an indifferent delicacy, does not interfere in the lives of the people round.…

— Elizabeth Bowen

Nobody knows it, but I would be considered posh in Ireland.

— Vogue Williams

Northern Ireland has treated me well, you know?

— James Nesbitt

Song of Ireland' struck a chord in Ireland. There are tons of Rabbitts there.

— Eddie Rabbitt

My heart is quite calm now. I will go back.

— James Joyce

We've seen a lot of dirty politics in Ireland.

— Ciaran Hinds

I can't say enough about Ireland. I can't. I'd move there.

— Jeffrey Dean Morgan

If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he entitled to happiness?

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

It's not a hard sell to be asked to do something in Ireland.

— Bryce Dessner