Irish Quotes

515 Irish quotes by 364 unique authors

There are probably more annoying things than being hectored about African development by a wealthy Irish rock star in a cowboy hat, but I can't… — Paul Theroux
I come from a long line of staunch Irish Catholics. — Robert Vaughn
My mother is Italian and my dad's Irish. In my family, we're expressive. Nobody holds back. — Kate Walsh
I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom. — Orson Welles
My dad is Irish. I spent my childhood going back and forth between Ireland and America. — Olivia Wilde
If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized. — Oscar Wilde
I come from the tradition of a big Irish family that loves to sing. I love to perform. — Robbie Williams
Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy. — William Butler Yeats
Irish poets, learn your trade, sing whatever is well made, scorn the sort now growing up all out of shape from toe to top. — William Butler Yeats
For me, being Catholic was who I was and who I am, just like I'm Irish and Slovak. It's just so ingrained in us. — Regina Brett
I always went to Ireland as a child. I remember trips to Dundalk, Wexford, Cork and Dublin. My gran was born in Dublin, and we… — Vinnie Jones
I said that when I looked at photographs of the firefighters who went into the Twin Towers, their faces looked to me like Irish faces.… — Colm Toibin
I went to live in Barcelona in 1975, when I was twenty. Even before I went there, I knew more about the Spanish Civil War… — Colm Toibin
To be Irish is to know that in the end the world will break your heart. — Daniel Patrick Moynihan
[Kurt Cobain] had a lot of German in him. Some Irish. But no Jew. I think that if he had had a little Jew he… — Courtney Love
It's not enough to be American. You always have to be something else, Irish-American, German-American, and you'd wonder how they'd get along if someone hadn't… — Frank McCourt
People everywhere brag and whimper about the woes of their early years, but nothing can compare with the Irish version: the poverty; the shiftless loquacious… — Frank McCourt
When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously tenacious. — Edna O'Brien
His eldest sister (who modestly prefers to be identified here as a Tuckahoe homemaker) has asked me to describe him as looking like 'the blue-eyed… — J D Salinger
As a member of the Protestant British squirearchy ruling Ireland, he was touchy about his Irish origins. When in later life an enthusiastic Gael commended… — Duke of Wellington
Yes, I am Irish and Indian, which would be the coolest blend in the world if my parents were around to teach me how to… — Sherman Alexie
An Irish Airman foresees his Death I Know that I shall meet my fate Somewhere among the clouds above; Those that I fight I do… — William Butler Yeats
They're a dark people with a gift for suffering way past their deserving. It's said that without whiskey to soak and soften the world, they'd… — John Steinbeck
The Local Paper here asked that me books be banned........THE HIGHEST PRAISE for an Irish writer. — Ken Bruen
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,… — J R Ward

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