Cynical Quote by Brendan Behan

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

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

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

To be honest I live among the English and have always found them to be very honest in their business dealings. They are noble,…

— Fiona Shaw

The Irish are just good people, they always have been.

— Spencer Matthews

The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.

— Samuel Johnson

There is an utter ignorance of, and indifference to, our sufferings and privations…What care they for us, provided we be submissive, pay the taxes,…

— Daniel O'Connell

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

— Anonymous

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

— Jane Jacobs

I can't think of anything you might say about Irish people that is absolutely true.

— Anne Enright

I have often heard it said that the Irish are too ready to forgive. It is a noble failing.

— Katharine Tynan

I'm sure there's some sort of cynicism or fatalism in Ireland and England. We are fatalistic here, and sometimes we need to be shaken…

— Brian Gleeson