Anxious Quote by Fiona Shaw

I love the Irish for their attachment to the faith and for many amiable and noble qualities, but they are deficient in good sense,…

— Orestes Brownson

The Irish are just good people, they always have been.

— Spencer Matthews

We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.

— Winston Churchill

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

Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy.

— Fiona Shaw

The Irish are hearty, the Scotch plausible, the French polite, the Germans good-natured, the Italians courtly, the Spaniards reserved and decorous - the English…

— William Hazlitt

The Irish are a philosophic as well as a practical race. Their first and strongest impulse is to make the best of a bad…

— Theodore Dreiser

It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody.

— Brendan Behan

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

— Anne Enright

There is an Irish way of paying compliments as though they were irresistible truths which makes what would otherwise be an impertinence delightful.

— Katharine Tynan

I - and there are hundreds of thousands of Irishmen who felt on this subject as I do - have always liked my Celtic…

— Douglas Hyde

There's something about the Irish that is remarkable.

— Fiona Shaw