The English possessed as many words for stealing as the…

They know not how many things are signified by the words stealing, sowing, buying, keeping quiet, seeing what ought to be done; for this…

— Marcus Aurelius

Biting my words stealing my swag and sitting in my face and acting like we frands when in the end this thing going on…

— Author Name

“I think being a woman is like being Irish... Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the time.”

— Iris Murdoch

I'm Irish and always will be, but America has taught me so much. Maybe it's here in the U.S. that we find a healing,…

— Fionnula Flanagan

There's all sorts of soul. There's Irish soul and Native American soul. If it touches you and moves you, it's soul.

— John Oates

Thankfully the rest of the world assumed that the Irish were crazy, a theory that the Irish themselves did nothing to debunk. They had…

— Eoin Colfer

“Why would she do that?" "Because she's a Yankee - a Maine Yankee, the worst kind. On a given day, they can make the…

— Stephen King

“A horn honks.I look up, expecting to see the white Audi. But there’s a sleek black four-door with shiny silver rims instead. e driver…

— K A Tucker

“...books, ingeniously coupled with music and alcohol, enabled the Irish to transcend reality.”

— Joe Queenan

“Do you know what Ireland is?' asked Stephen with cold violence. 'Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.”

— James Joyce

Ireland starts for me with the end of 'The Dead,' which my father read to me from his desk in his basement office in…

— John Jeremiah Sullivan

“Ireland is probably named the “Emerald Isle” because there are lots of precious stones found there, such as sapphires and rubies.”

— Jarod Kintz

Though my grandmother had picked up modern ideas in America, she still had some conflicting 19th-century Irish notions. She believed that daughters, educated though…

— Rosemary Mahoney

Irish research will contribute to global progress and have the potential to help all countries realise the potential of their land sectors in addressing…

— Enda Kenny

William Maxwell's my favorite North American writer, I think. And an Irish writer who used to write for 'The New Yorker' called Maeve Brennan,…

— Alice Munro