Irish Quotes · Page 8

I am half Bengali and half Irish by birth.

— Amala Akkineni

I'm just an Irish biddy.

— Judy Garland

I'm just a true Irish boy at heart.

— Colin Farrell

Good luck beats early rising

— Anonymous

Do you think anybody knows that I'm Irish?

— Niall Horan

Northern Irish people tend to have this sharp, dark sense of humour.

— Aisling Bea

Dublin is really fun, and Irish people are hilarious.

— Michelle Visage

I used to have an Australian accent for school and an Irish accent for home.

— Genevieve O'Reilly

With Irish drama, things are told with humor.

— Rory O'Malley

If you're lucky enough to be Irish, then you're lucky enough.

— Anonymous

I'm Irish. I don't know how to take a compliment.

— Ardal O'Hanlon

“Never wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.”

— George Bernard Shaw

When I'm in L.A., I'm part of the Irish community out there, and I just love it.

— Aisling Bea

I basically have the diet of a 19th-century Irish navy, apart from the litre of stout a day. It's meat and potatoes…

— Daniel Radcliffe

There is an Irish way of paying compliments as though they were irresistible truths which makes what would otherwise be an impertinence…

— Katharine Tynan

Extraordinary scenes there at the end. I think some of the crowd chanting 'Italy! Italy!' were actually Irish.

— Tom McGurk

“Irish. I should have known it. Such a gift of gab you’ve got, and all the charm in the world.”

— Nora Roberts

Making it [St. Patrick's Day] a great day for the Irish, but just an ok day if you're looking for a quiet…

— Jon Stewart

“There are only two types of people in Ireland... Those who watch The Late Late Show. And there are those who have…

— David Walsh

Clericalism has rendered some of Ireland's brightest, most privileged and powerful men either unwilling or unable to address the horrors cited in…

— Enda Kenny

My ancestors came from Co Roscommon, transported to Van Diemen's Land for stealing food.

— Richard Flanagan

I have no prouder boast to say I am Irish and have been privileged to fight for the Irish people and for…

— Francis Hughes

My mother came from an Irish family of 11 kids and, of course, had a sister who was a nun, so I…

— Ellen Pompeo

I've been a Leeds fan for as long as I can remember. When you are about five or six, you adopt a…

— Ardal O'Hanlon

In 1975, no State or Church guidelines existed in the Republic of Ireland to assist those responding to an allegation of abuse…

— Sean Brady

“You were born here. You and your children will have American stories, and they’ll be better than any sorrowful Irish tales. At…

— Susan Denning

In Manhasset you were either Yankees or Mets, rich or poor, sober or drunk...You were 'Gaelic' or 'garlic," as one schoolmate told…

— J. R. Moehringer

“Pride should be reserved for something you achieve or obtain on your own, not something that happens by accident of birth. Being…

— George Carlin

I knew I had that Cajun heritage, that Acadian heritage; I just feel it. And my gut says Irish on the other…

— Mary Gauthier

My full name is Ross Fleming Butler; it's very British-Irish.

— Ross Butler

What's the use of being Irish if you can't be thick?

— Billy Conn

I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt.

— Edna O'Brien

Ireland is a great country to die or be married in.

— Elizabeth Bowen

I'm Irish. I think about death all the time.

— Jack Nicholson

Pulse of my heart, song of my soul, light of my night.

— Anonymous

The Irish are just good people, they always have been.

— Spencer Matthews

Beware an Irishman who loves his wife the most but his mother the longest.

— Anonymous

“By 1709, the Irish owned only 14 percent of the land in their own”

— Thomas Sowell

I like to think I'm an honorary Irishman. Me and Jack Charlton!

— Dylan Llewellyn

I come from the tradition of a big Irish family that loves to sing. I love to perform.

— Robbie Williams