Irishmen Quote by Augustus Hare Download Open image “Every Irishman, the saying goes, has a potato in his head.” — Augustus Hare ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Irishmen Potatoes
“You may have noticed there are three things an Irishman always puts his soul in: his religion, his sports, and his politics. If you… — Mary Deasy Copy Share Image
Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to. — Shane Leslie Copy Share Image
“1 Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ral May you have no frost on your spuds, No worms on your cabbage. May your goat give plenty of milk. If you… — Janice Thompson Copy Share Image
Alas! the culture of an Irishman is an enterprise to be undertaken with a sort of moral bog hoe. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“A real Irishman will give everything of himself--except that kernel of his soul which makes him a mystery to other peoples.” — Jim Tully Beggars Abroad Copy Share Image
The poor silly-clever Irishman takes off his hat to God's Englishman. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“No genuine Irishman could relax in comfort and feel at home in a pub unless he was sitting in deep gloom on a hard… — Flann O'Brien Copy Share Image
I can't think of anything you might say about Irish people that is absolutely true. — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
As to the pure all things are pure, even so to the impure all things are impure. — Augustus Hare Copy Share Image
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to have its faculties kept… — Augustus Hare Copy Share Image
Man without religion is the creature of circumstances: Religion is above all circumstances, and will lift him up above them. — Augustus Hare Copy Share Image
Love, it has been said, flows downward. The love of parents for their children has always been far more powerful than that of children… — Augustus Hare Copy Share Image
The question is not whether a doctrine is beautiful but whether it is true. When we wish to go to a place, we do… — Augustus Hare Copy Share Image
What hypocrites we seem to be whenever we talk of ourselves! Our words sound so humble, while our hearts are so proud. — Augustus Hare Copy Share Image
Since the generality of persons act from impulse, much more than from principle, men are neither so good nor so bad as we are… — Augustus Hare Copy Share Image
Many are ambitious of saying grand things, that is, of being grandiloquent. — Augustus Hare Copy Share Image
The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak. — Augustus Hare Copy Share Image
Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it. — Augustus Hare Copy Share Image
A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself. — Augustus Hare Copy Share Image
Have you heard about the Irishman who reversed into a car boot sale and sold the engine? — Frank Carson Copy Share Image
For Irishmen, there is no football game to match rugby and if all our young men played rugby not only would we beat England… — Eamon de Valera Copy Share Image
You're a good Irishman, right?" When Butch nodded, V said, "Irish, Irish… let me think. Yeah…" Vishous's eyes sobered, and in a voice that cracked, he said, "May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face and the rains fall soft upon your fields. And… my… — J.R. Ward Copy Share
The Irishman in English literature may be said to have been born with an apology in his mouth. — James Connolly Copy Share Image
More Irishmen died fighting for Britain in World War I than died fighting against her in all of Ireland's bids for independence combined. — David Frum Copy Share Image
It is a most disgraceful shame the way in which Irishmen are brought up. They are ashamed of their language, institutions, and of everything… — Douglas Hyde Copy Share Image
Consider the islands bearing the names of all the saints, bristling with forts like chestnut-burs, or Echinidæ, yet the police will not let a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Put an Englishman into the garden of Eden, and he would find fault with the whole blasted concern; put a Yankee in, and he… — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“In becoming an Irishman, Patrick wedded his world to theirs, his faith to their life…Patrick found a way of swimming down to the depths… — Thomas Cahill Copy Share Image
It is rare that we use our thinking faculty as resolutely as an irishman his spade. To please our friends and relatives we turn out our silver ore in cartloads, while we neglect to workour mines of gold known only to ourselves far up in the Sierras, where we pulled up a bush in our mountain walk, and saw the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
In other words, the problem of empire-building is essentially mystical. It must somehow foster the impression that a man is great in the degree that his nation is great; that a German as such is superior to a Belgian as such; an Englishman, to an Irishman; an American, to a Mexican: merely because the first-named countries are in each case… — Felix Morley Copy Share
