Middle age Quote by Elizabeth Berg

“But it was always thus with Irishmen. Never, since the start of the world, has one of them taken a woman's sensible advice when…

— Eddie Lenihan

“If there were only three Irishmen in the world you'd find two of them in a corner talking about the other.”

— Brandan Araoz Maria

“It was a difficult time to be Irish, a difficult time to be twenty-one years of age and a difficult time to be a…

— John Boyne

“...to be Irish is to know the world will break your heart before you are thirty.”

— Virginia Henley

“A man with an Irish accent could sound wise and poetic and interesting even when he wasn’t.”

— Kate Atkinson

“There's no sense to being Irish unless you know the world's going to break your heart.”

— Thomas Adcock

“Irish people have been leaving their homes in search of better lives for many, many years. We're very good at it.”

— Matthew Quick

“Now the Irish women always look so ashamed. They know they can never make a Jesus. It will be just another Mick.”

— Betty Smith

Irish was a man of parts even if some of them didn't work too well.

— Angela Carter

“I think being a woman is like being Irish... Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the time.”

— Iris Murdoch

“Do you know that an Irishman always respond to a question with another?" And the Irish guy replies "Who told you that?”

— Cathy Kelly

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

— Anne Enright