Irish Quotes · Page 11

I'm Irish. That means I'm Catholic. But, truth is, now I'm a retired Christian.

— Peter O'Toole

Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy.

— Fiona Shaw

I'm an Irish-American, and I grew up in an Irish-American neighborhood.

— William Devane

There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting.

— John Millington Synge

My blue-grey Irish eyes are from my grandfather, who was a travelling tinker.

— David Essex

I'm from Salford, and I don't have any immediate Irish connection.

— Tom Glynn-Carney

Love makes time pass, beware time making love pass.

— Anonymous

Bullshit, as you Americans say. He's Irish. The Irish say bullshit too.

— Kevin Hearne

When I was coming up as an actor, even when I was going to Irish roles, I was advised to pick a…

— Jamie-Lee O'Donnell

St. Patrick's Day is an enchanted time, a day to begin transforming winter's dreams into summers magic.

— Adrienne Cook

“The Irish are a merry race and surely they are mad, for all their wars are merry and all their songs are…

— Michael Capuzzo

In the cycling world I am... okay, it sounds arrogant, but I am pretty high up. And I am a good athlete.…

— Sam Bennett

I think the genetics of being Irish are that you sort of prefer when it's rainy and cloudy. It's just genetic.

— Kate Flannery

Irish poets, learn your trade, sing whatever is well made, scorn the sort now growing up all out of shape from toe…

— William Butler Yeats

Northern Ireland has a unique place in the Union. As the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement enshrined in law, the people of Northern Ireland…

— David Lidington

I have often heard it said that the Irish are too ready to forgive. It is a noble failing.

— Katharine Tynan

If you ask me where do I belong, it would be somewhere in the Irish Sea almost - born in Hong Kong,…

— John Rocha

It is what the poets of Ireland used to be saying, that every brave man, good at fighting, and every man that…

— Lady Gregory

Oh, the Irish were building the railroads down through Mexico, through Chihuahua. They finished the railroads when they finished out in the…

— Anthony Quinn

“They play at gods,' said Piedar Dooly, and spat. 'French and English alike. Gods out of hell would you say, harrowing green…

— Dorothy Dunnett

If you stand back and look at it in a global sense you'll find this [Irish people in music] was happening everywhere.…

— John Kinsella

“He had been thinking of how landscape moulds a language. It was impossible to imagine these hills giving forth anything but the…

— Alexander McCall Smith

The Irish are often nervous about having the appropriate face for the occasion. They have to be happy at weddings, which is…

— Peggy Noonan

Sinn Fein is an Irish Republican party. We stood in the Assembly election to deliver a prosperous economy and jobs, to protect…

— Martin McGuinness

My kids are Irish; I want them to grow up playing Gaelic football and learning Irish.

— Shane Filan

It is a symbol of Irish art. The cracked looking-glass of a servant.

— James Joyce

Westlife earnt millions. We were on the 'Irish Times' Rich List. And then... I'm not!

— Shane Filan

I like it when a young Irish kid comes out on Tour - I was that kid!

— Shane Lowry

Oh Ireland my first and only love Where Christ and Caesar are hand in glove!

— James Joyce

“love to see the Irish Ordnance Survey offer something similar.”

— Anonymous

You are not speaking for yourself, but for Ireland.

— Michael D. Higgins

In the spirit of the Irish people, Osama bin Laden, you can kiss my royal Irish ass!

— Mike Moran

I love battles. I think it's part of the Irish in me.

— Herb Kelleher

I think of Dermot Healy as the heir to Patrick Kavanagh.

— Seamus Heaney

I own a lot of my house, because I'm Irish and from people who never owned anything.

— Dan Savage

“God did not intend for Irish kids to play in the sun, according to my mother.”

— Laurie Halse Anderson

I used to be Irish Catholic. Now I'm an American - you know, you grow.

— George Carlin

I was happy in Dublin because it is very cosmopolitan.

— Rick Allen

Where would the Irish be without someone to be Irish at?

— Elizabeth Bowen

My grandparents were all born in the U.S., but their parents came from Ireland.

— Michael Connelly