Irish Quotes · Page 13

“75% of Irish people wish they were 76%. The other 25% wish they were 24%.
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— Jarod Kintz

If you're Irish, it doesn't matter where you go - you'll find family.

— Victoria Smurfit

Give Ireland back to the Irish, don't make them have to take it away.

— Paul McCartney

You're not falling for me, are you, Irish?" -Adam to Gabrielle

— Karen Marie Moning

“The Irish move to the sound of the guns like salmon to the sea”

— Rudyard Kipling

“(Blanche has already steeled herself, knowing that the Irish can’t cook.)”

— Emma Donoghue

The Irish and British, they love satire, it's a large part of the culture.

— Ben Nicholson

Wow you need to get some sun.” “Shut up. I'm Irish.

— Kevin Hearne

There's still, dare I say it, a cultural propaganda against the Irish, that we are, as women, 'feisty.' I hate that word.

— Dervla Kirwan

In the country places of Ireland, writing is held in certain awe: a writer was a dangerous man from whom they instinctively…

— Patrick Kavanagh

I bought a flat in Camden when I was 26, which I was extremely lucky to do. I think it's an Irish…

— Laura Whitmore

If you could drink dreams like the Irish streams Then the world would be high as the mountain of morn In the…

— John Lennon

Ah, Ireland... That damnable, delightful country, where everything that is right is the opposite of what it ought to be.

— Benjamin Disraeli

A typical Irish dinner would be: cream flavored with lobster, cream with bits of veal in it, green peas and cream, cream…

— Nancy Mitford

I feel Irish-Americans are the forgotten minority group. Nobody else is making films about them.

— Edward Burns

Our common membership of the E.U. provided an important external context to the Irish and U.K. governments working together for peace. It…

— Enda Kenny

At this moment, when Ireland seems about to break into something new, we thought it was worth looking back at a time…

— Stephen Rea

I love the way an Irish man, they can hardly speak proper English, is doing William Shakespeare. So I find that extraordinary…

— Gavin Friday

Poetry is not Irish or any other nationality; and when writers such as Messrs. Clarke, Farren and the late F. R. Higgins…

— Patrick Kavanagh

In England especially, poetry's woven into the background fabric of society. And in Ireland, it's in the foreground. The place of the…

— David Whyte

I think the world's a little smaller these days. With the Internet and the availability of people, the pool of English speaking…

— Sonya Walger

Our fifty principal cities contain 39.3 per cent of our entire German population, and 45.8 per cent of the Irish. Our ten…

— Josiah Strong

Have you ever heard of Irish, Poles, Germans, Italians and Jews being integrated? They go anywhere and just enjoy their rights. Why…

— James Meredith

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

My uncle was a photographer for 'The Irish Times.'

— Roisin Murphy

I make a mean Irish soda bread every Christmas and give it out to friends and family.

— Matt Walsh

“...to be Irish is to know the world will break your heart before you are thirty.”

— Virginia Henley

“Irish has not so much a common formula as a common character.”

— Lew Bryson

Ireland is where strange tales begin and happy endings are possible.

— Charles Haughey

Sir Patrick Rackrent lived and died a monument of old Irish hospitality.

— Maria Edgeworth

[On the Irish:] Strange race ... Don't know what they want, but want it like the devil.

— Mary Roberts Rinehart

“Surely there’s no need to abandon one’s reason simply because one is in Ireland.”

— J.G. Farrell

The Irish job was something that had to be sorted out.

— Jack Charlton

I come from an Irish Catholic family, and hell-raising is part of the DNA.

— Brian Dennehy

The English treatment of the Irish was appalling. It was absolutely appalling.

— Perdita Weeks

“Just try and think of me as an Irish Batman, and you'll be all right.”

— C.M. Stunich

“Both my parents were Irish, and the Irish word for “suntan” is “burn.”

— Mira Grant

I grew up in Ireland, and there were so many things we believed in.

— Caitriona Balfe

I can't feel Irish to save my soul, but it's a fact.

— Alex Haley

Some ghosts are so quiet you would hardly know they were there.

— Bernie Mcgill