Irish Quotes

515 Irish quotes by 364 unique authors

I've been told I have an Irish temper, I know I have Scottish thrift, and, like the English, I love a good show. — Jeanette MacDonald
The six great gifts of an Irish girl are beauty, soft voice, sweet speech, wisdom, needlework, and chastity. — Theodore Roosevelt
And there I saw in the night the vision of a man....coming as it were from Ireland, with countless letters. And he gave me one… — Saint Patrick
I rather think the cinema will die. Look at the energy being exerted to revive it - yesterday it was color, today three dimensions. I… — Orson Welles
It is a most disgraceful shame the way in which Irishmen are brought up. They are ashamed of their language, institutions, and of everything Irish. — Douglas Hyde
The Irish Government can no longer stand by and see innocent people injured and perhaps worse. — Jack Lynch
And I'm a Catholic, from an Irish Catholic family, and we know plenty of stuff about guilt. — Bob Gunton
I'm hugely proud of being Irish. And I don't even know what that means. I just know that it's true. — Domhnall Gleeson
I've heard some duff Irish accents. The worst must be Mickey Rourke. — James Nesbitt
Though the Negroes are fed, clothed, and housed, and though the Irish peasant is starved, naked, and roofless, the bare name of freemen-the lordship over… — Fanny Kemble
I am Michael, and I am part English, Irish, German, and Scottish, sort of a virtual United Nations. — Michael Scott
H. L Mencken's Dictionary of the American Language supplies a long list of slang terms for being drunk, but the Irish are no slouches, either.… — Bill Barich
For my last meal, I'd want an Irish breakfast with soda bread and one of my dad's omelettes with three or four eggs. — Erin O'Connor
I worked the drive-through at McDonald's and tried out different accents - Italian, Russian, Irish. — James Franco
I remember the '70s constantly being winter in Manchester and the Irish community in Manchester closing ranks because of the IRA bombings in Birmingham and… — Noel Gallagher
I hold that the beginning of modern Irish drama was in the winter of 1898, at a school feast at Coole, when Douglas Hyde and… — Lady Gregory
In my childhood there was every year at my old home, Roxborough, or, as it is called in Irish, Cregroostha, a great sheep-shearing that lasted… — Lady Gregory
Irish history having been forbidden in schools, has been, to a great extent, learned from Raftery's poems by the people of Mayo, where he was… — Lady Gregory
Once in my childhood I had been eager to learn Irish; I thought to get leave to take lessons from an old Scripture-reader who spent… — Lady Gregory
The first play I wrote was called 'Twenty-five.' It was played by our company in Dublin and London, and was adapted and translated into Irish… — Lady Gregory
I was raised Irish Catholic, but I don't consider myself Irish Catholic: I consider myself me, an American. — John Cusack
The first music I was ever exposed to was Irish folk music, like the Clancy Brothers. My father plays that and Christmas songs. — Matt Dillon
There is no way in which we can retrospectively erase the Treaty of Vienna or the Great Irish Famine. It is a peculiar feature of… — Terry Eagleton
Being Irish is very much a part of who I am. I take it everywhere with me. — Colin Farrell
I'm just a true Irish boy at heart. — Colin Farrell

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