Irishman Quotes

I'm a typical Irishman in that I only get home for weddings and funerals.

— Walter O'Brien

An Irishman's wife gave birth to twins. Her husband wanted to know who the other man was.

— Frank Carson

Now here I am playing a passionate young Irishman who would die for what he believes in.

— James D'arcy

This would be a grand land if only every Irishman would kill a negro, and be hanged for it.

— Edward Augustus Freeman

“It was great being back here with my club, but the Irishman put some invisible chains on my balls.”

— James Cox

Alas! the culture of an Irishman is an enterprise to be undertaken with a sort of moral bog hoe.

— Henry David Thoreau

Mulligan: invented by an Irishman who wanted to hit one more twenty yard grounder.

— Jim Bishop

“An Irishman talks best when there is competition.”

— Mary Doyle Curran

“Fionn went [...] to carve a name for himself that will live while Time has an ear and knows an Irishman”

— James Stephens

“If you ask an Irishman for directions, he might be quick to answer, Well if I were going there, I would not…

— Steve Stockman

Third Irishman to wear the green jersey, after 31 years, that's very special for me, and I'm focused on keeping it.

— Sam Bennett

They have nothing in their whole imperial arsenal that can break the spirit of one Irishman who doesn't want to be broken.

— Bobby Sands

Look at me, man, look at me and tell me I don't know what I'm about. I'm Conor Larkin. I'm an Irishman…

— Leon Uris

I am one who fights without a knack of hoping confidentlysimply a Scotch-Irishman who will not be conquered.

— Woodrow Wilson

Don't let my looks deceive you. I have the mouth of a sailor, the temper of an Italian housewife, and the tolerance…

— Anonymous

An Irishman is the only man in the world who will step over the bodies of a dozen naked women to get…

— Anonymous

“No genuine Irishman could relax in comfort and feel at home in a pub unless he was sitting in deep gloom on…

— Flann O'Brien

I'll tell you what you can expect from an Irishman named Wellington whose father was a bookmaker. You can expect that anything…

— Wellington Mara

An Irishman's imagination never lets him alone, never convinces him, never satisfies him; but it makes him that he can't face reality…

— George Bernard Shaw

“During the dinner Bill said something to Jimmy I’ll never forget. He said, “I’ve never seen a man walk straight through a…

— Charles Brandt

When the Irishman is found outside of Ireland in another environment, he very often becomes a respected man. The economic and intellectual…

— James Joyce

It used to be the case that for an Irishman to come to the U.S. involved a perilous journey on a ship.…

— Joseph O'Neill

You're a good Irishman, right?" When Butch nodded, V said, "Irish, Irish… let me think. Yeah…" Vishous's eyes sobered, and in a…

— J.R. Ward

“You may have noticed there are three things an Irishman always puts his soul in: his religion, his sports, and his politics.…

— Mary Deasy

“Sophia shielded her eyes with her hand and peered up at the Irishman’s face. His hard eyes wandered form her hand, to…

— Tessa Dare

“he burly Irishman, however, who frisked Rachel did so with more enjoyment than he should have. He slid his hands up the…

— Connor Fitzgerald

“Thomas Cromwell is now about fifty years old. He has a labourer's body, stocky, useful, running to fat. He has black hair,…

— Hilary Mantel

The Irishman frees himself from slavery when he realizes the truth that the capitalist system is the most foreign thing in Ireland.…

— James Connolly

“I wasn't an Irishman, but I knew how it felt to have someone standing over you, controlling your life and wanting to…

— Eddie Huang

Every Irishman, the saying goes, has a potato in his head.

— Augustus Hare

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

— Dylan Llewellyn

Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.

— Shane Leslie

Have you heard about the Irishman who reversed into a car boot sale and sold the engine?

— Frank Carson

Ideally, we'd want an Irishman coming in for the job, but, ideally it doesn't really matter.

— Clinton Morrison

I thought I was God's gift to mankind and the greatest Irishman since George Best.

— James Nesbitt

The Irishman in English literature may be said to have been born with an apology in his mouth.

— James Connolly

You ran away from an adorable Irishman who wanted to se you naked?

— Christine Warren

“I am an Irishman, sir." "Irish Irish?" "Yes, sir.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

I would never repudiate the fact that I am an Irishman

— Ian Paisley

An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.

— James Joyce