English people Quote by CMAT

People think we are such great talkers, but there is so much silence in Ireland about certain issues.

— Fionnula Flanagan

Irish people are pragmatic. They understand that nobody is going to fix our problems but ourselves.

— Enda Kenny

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.

— Oscar Wilde

Thanks to the European Union, Ireland has a much more open climate of discussion and debate, as you can see in the media. It…

— Mary Robinson

I think that's why you see so many Americans in Dublin look so sad: they are looking for the door through which they can…

— Frank McCourt

I find being Irish quite a wearing thing. It takes so much work because it is a social construction. People think you are going…

— Anne Enright

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

It's an amazingly consistent thing with Irish people. We will talk to strangers at parties for hours. It's what we were bred to do…

— Greg Fitzsimmons

I do think culture is an argument, and that was part of the way I was brought up. People at a social occasion in…

— Tom Paulin

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

— Samuel Johnson

Not to Learn Irish is to miss the opportunity of understanding what life in this country has meant and could mean in a better…

— Seamus Heaney

Idioms are a big thing in Ireland. They want to fill the time, to show how good they are at talk - it's a…

— Dylan Moran