Art Quote by Alex Johnston

No one would ever cast me as an aristocrat. I think the big thing about being an Irish artist is access to melancholy. Especially…

— Brian Dennehy

The Irish are a philosophic as well as a practical race. Their first and strongest impulse is to make the best of a bad…

— Theodore Dreiser

Irish people are educated not only about artistry but local history.

— Fiona Shaw

I love the Irish for their attachment to the faith and for many amiable and noble qualities, but they are deficient in good sense,…

— Orestes Brownson

Not in vain is Ireland pouring itself all over the earth. The Irish, with their glowing hearts and reverent credulity, are needed in this…

— Lydia M. Child

Irish people are still very prickly about Catholic Church. Despite all the scandals and cover-ups that have rocked the church, you can only push…

— Ardal O'Hanlon

the Irish ... are full of the fear of the Lord and the joy of living, and they don't know how to combine the…

— Mercedes McCambridge

Priests focus on the spiritual. As a lay person I could show people how to be good Catholics in the world.

— Bo Sanchez

It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody.

— Brendan Behan

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

— Henry David Thoreau

There is something restless and curious about the Irish. Like everybody else, we want to make money and make our way in the world…

— Ardal O'Hanlon

Irish artists have a tradition of being very heavily engaged in what is happening in their own society. So it was important that they…

— Sinead O'Connor