Irish Quotes · Page 13

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

— Bernie Mcgill

I'm always ready for a change. I'm Irish. I'm a leprechaun.

— Shaquille O'Neal

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

— Alex Haley

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

— Caitriona Balfe

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

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

— Emma Donoghue

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

— Rudyard Kipling

To make a career as an Irish actor, generally it's the case that you move to London. When you make that move,…

— Aidan Turner

I don't buy into the idea that an Irish writer should write about Ireland, or a gay writer should write about being…

— John Boyne

I sure love Ireland. The first trip I ever made was last year when I did this record in Dublin.

— Michael W. Smith

“She had a face which was not so much freckled as one big freckle with occasional areas of skin.”

— Neil Gaiman

English, Welsh, Scottish and Northern Irish football gains so much from being in Europe. Clubs and fans all benefit from European action,…

— Karren Brady

My family calls me Declan. But most people call me E.C. I think it comes from my dad. It's an Irish convention.…

— Elvis Costello

There's still a great hesitancy in the Irish make up about expressing feelings... it'd be nice to say I miss you, I…

— Fionnula Flanagan

The Irish are people who will never have leaders, for at the great moment they always desert them. They have produced one…

— James Joyce

There are three states of legality in Irish law. There is all this stuff which comes under That's grand, then it moves…

— Dara O Briain

“Round these men stories tended to group themselves, sometimes deserting more ancient heroes for the purpose. Round poets have they gathered especially,…

— W.B. Yeats

“...early medieval Ireland sounds like a somewhat crazed Wisconsin, in which every dairy farm is an armed camp at perpetual war with…

— David Willis McCullough

Learn what not to expect. Irish catholic they get sh**** little rings. Irish women get crappy rings. Baptist get the worst because…

— Joan Rivers

I feel more Irish than English. I feel freer than British, more visceral, with a love of language. Shot through with fire…

— Kenneth Branagh

Both the U.K. and the E.U. have made a sincere commitment to the people of Northern Ireland: there will be no hard…

— David Lidington

I always thought the biggest failing of Americans was their lack of irony. They are very serious there! Naturally, there are exceptions...…

— Colin Firth

My middle name is Nicole. It's so weird because my mom is from El Salvador, but my sisters and I have Irish…

— Christy Turlington

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

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

— Virginia Henley

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

— Matt Walsh

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

— Lew Bryson

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

— Roisin Murphy

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

— Maria Edgeworth

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

— Charles Haughey

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

— Mary Roberts Rinehart

I come from a long line of staunch Irish Catholics.

— Robert Vaughn

There's a real mischievousness about Irishmen, don't you find?

— Natalie Dormer

I'm Irish and Cherokee Indian. I can't faint.

— Lynn Collins

I just wasn't cut out to be a Chinese Tiger Mom. I'm more of an Irish Setter Dad.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Irish music makes you want to get up and jump around.

— Gary Moore

Irish Catholicism is very much founded on the stone of fear and of punishment.

— Edna O'Brien

Irish was a man of parts even if some of them didn't work too well.

— Angela Carter