Fats Quote by Anonymous

The monstrous thing is not that men have created roses out of this dung heap, but that, for some reason or other, they should…

— Henry Miller

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

As I'd travelled, I'd seen more and more people drinking rose. Given the amount of grapes we grow in Australia, I just said, 'Why…

— John Torode

I'd love to have the whole place swimming in roses

— James Joyce

Rose doesn’t like the flat country, but I always did – flat country seems to give the sky such a chance.

— Dodie Smith

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

— Katharine Tynan

The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem For that sweet odour which doth in it live.

— William Shakespeare

“I feel more strongly with every recurring year that our country has no tradition which does it so much honour and which it should…

— James Joyce

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

— Crispin Glover

“Are the roses not also--even as the owl is--excessive? Each flower is small and lovely, but in their sheer and silent abundance the roses…

— Mary Oliver

“Dublin was an English city, one of the loveliest. The most Irish thing about it was the shifting drab flow of the poor people”

— Jan Morris

I have encountered on this long road an enthusiasm for an Irishness which will be built on recognising again those sources from which spring…

— Michael D. Higgins