Irishmen Quotes

42 quotes by 33 authors

But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me just the right… — Chinua Achebe
I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Give an Irishman lager for a month and he's a dead man. An Irishman's stomach is lined with copper, and the beer corrodes it. But… — Mark Twain
Mulligan: invented by an Irishman who wanted to hit one more twenty yard grounder. — Jim Bishop
It used to be the case that for an Irishman to come to the U.S. involved a perilous journey on a ship. It involved singing… — Joseph O'Neill
I read the story and reread the story, but I still could not find the universality that the little Irishman had spoken of. All I… — Ulysses S. Grant
Put an Irishman on the spit and you can always get another Irishman to turn him. — George Bernard Shaw
Can it be possible that the painters make John the Baptist a Spaniard in Madrid and an Irishman in Dublin? — Mark Twain
I would never repudiate the fact that I am an Irishman — Ian Paisley
I was born in the island of Ireland. I have Irish traits in me - we don't all have the traits of what came from… — Ian Paisley
We refuse to lie here in dishonor! We are not criminals, but Irishmen! This is the crime of which we stand accused. — Bobby Sands
When the Irishman is found outside of Ireland in another environment, he very often becomes a respected man. The economic and intellectual conditions that prevail… — James Joyce
What captivity has been to the Jews, exile has been to the Irish. For us, the romance of our native land begins only after we… — Peter Ackroyd
Ireland, as distinct from her people, is nothing to me; and the man who is bubbling over with love and enthusiasm for "Ireland," and can… — James Connolly
An Englishmen thinks seated; a Frenchmen standing; an American pacing, an Irishman, afterwards. — Austin O'Malley
On golfer Rory McIlroy's collapse in the final round of the 2011 Masters: We had hoped to compare the young Northern Irishman to the great… — Matt Dickinson
The Irishman frees himself from slavery when he realizes the truth that the capitalist system is the most foreign thing in Ireland. The Irish question… — James Connolly
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… — Felix Morley
In becoming an Irishman, Patrick wedded his world to theirs, his faith to their lifeâ€¦Patrick found a way of swimming down to the depths of… — Thomas Cahill
Look at me, man, look at me and tell me I don't know what I'm about. I'm Conor Larkin. I'm an Irishman and I've had… — Leon Uris

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