Gaelic Quote by Gladys Mitchell

“The behaviour of the English people I had run into was making it very difficult to nail down a theory that the reason my…

— Tony Hawks

“Macpherson's [work] was largely inauthentic with respect to any genuine Gaelic verse tradition, but it was the very voice of authenticity for the developing…

— Malcolm Chapman

“The Irish move to the sound of the guns like salmon to the sea”

— Rudyard Kipling

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

— Kate Atkinson

“And so he began haltingly to speak—in Gaelic, as it was the only tongue that didn’t seem to require any effort. He understood that…

— Diana Gabaldon

“You know what they say: All Welshmen sing. All Scots are thrifty. All Englishmen have stiff upper lips. And all Irishmen write plays.”

— Lilian Jackson Braun

“It is one of their beauties, the Irish, the way they crush and expand the language all at once How they mangle it and…

— Colum McCann

“We Irish are too poetical to be poets; we are a nation of brilliant failures, but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks.”

— Oscar Wilde

“The lively oral storytelling scene in Scots and Gaelic spills over into the majority English-speaking culture, imbuing it with a strong sense of narrative…

— Sara Sheridan

I have a difficult time doing an Irish accent; even now, it kind of fades slowly into Scottish.

— Robin Williams

“An Irishman's heart is nothing but his imagination.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“I was beginning to understand how the Irish mentality worked. The more foolish, illogical or surreal one's actions were perceived t be (and mine…

— Tony Hawks