Irish Quotes · Page 9

“Some men never recover from education.”

— Oliver St. John Gogarty

I'm Irish, for gods sake. I'm a romantic.

— Pierce Brosnan

I grew up Irish Catholic.

— Nicola Coughlan

Ireland's just a place...people go there all the time.

— Crispin Glover

“Because you’re not a one-night girl, Irish.” (...) “You’re my forever girl.”

— K.A. Tucker

My mother's Cubana/Irish and my dad's Catalan. And that blows my mind.

— Prefuse 73

My mother was very proud of being Irish and being a Gunnigan in a straightforward way.

— John Lanchester

Irish Catholics are more interested in the rosary beads than in the rosary.

— Bernadette Devlin

What Irish person doesn't love the Eurovision?

— Laura Whitmore

It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your life

— Anonymous

I'm proud of my Irish heritage and culture...

— Michael Flatley

Irish blessings to you and your loved ones. wishing you a very Happy St. Patrick's Feast.

— Anonymous

“The English possessed as many words for stealing as the Irish had for seaweed or guilt.”

— Joseph O'Connor

Irish people have a trick of over-statement, at which one ceases to wince as one grows older.

— Katharine Tynan

Maybe part of my animus against the English is the way they have always treated the Irish and they way they still…

— Jane Jacobs

Ballet Hispanico is far from Irish, and, though it has strong dancers, its Spanishness has always left me unconvinced.

— Robert Gottlieb

At home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure.

— Seamus Heaney

I'm a Londoner, and I feel I can't live anywhere but London, but I feel more connected to Ireland as a country.…

— Roisin Conaty

“This may come as a surprise to generations of Irish pupils, but the Irish language wasn't invented just to infuriate people forced…

— Darach Ó Séaghdha

The way I see it is that all the ol' guff about being Irish is a kind of nonsense. I mean, I…

— John McGahern

Hillary Clinton was actually inducted into the Irish American Hall of Fame yesterday. Hillary said she's very proud of her Irish heritage…

— Jimmy Fallon

Eternal is the fact that the human creature born in Ireland and brought up in its air is Irish. I have lived…

— George Bernard Shaw

We in Ireland are gifted beyond most peoples with a talent for acting, and in Dublin especially, while scorning culture, which indeed…

— Susan Mitchell

After school, instead of going into the restaurant scene, I very consciously took my guitar around everywhere I could, to Irish pubs…

— Nick Gehlfuss

I am not in the business of pointing fingers or making excuses. However, recent history has shown that I, like thousands of…

— Sean Quinn

Today I am so at home in Dublin, more than in any other city, that I feel it has always been familiar…

— Louis MacNeice

I dropped out of school at 17 and joined the Irish band The Frames, getting my first glimpse into the world of…

— John Carney

Don't give cherries to pigs or advice to fools.

— Anonymous

Irish people never think we're Irish. Americans think we're European or French.

— Winston Marshall

My dad's Irish music was such a huge influence.

— Dido Armstrong

“The Irish are never at peace but when they're fighting.”

— Mary Deasy

God created whiskey to keep the Irish from taking over the world.

— Kinky Friedman

My Irish identity is important as it's a part of who I am.

— Dervla Kirwan

I was raised in a very old fashioned Ireland where women were reared to be lovely.

— Anne Enright

Long live the Irish. Long live their cheer. Long live our friendship. Year after year.

— Anonymous

The Irish are a very fair people, they never speak well of one another.

— Anonymous

Tommy Tiernan is an Irish comic who I believe is one of the finest in the world.

— Russell Howard

“There are kings on every other bush in Ireland.”

— Charles Brady

People do think I'm Jewish. But we're Irish Catholic. My father had a brogue.

— Martin Short

“The Irish ignore anything they can't drink or punch." - Irish Proverb”

— Cedric Kelly