Animus Quote by Jane Jacobs

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

— Winston Churchill

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

— Douglas Hyde

I suppose British people generally, probably have very stereotypical notions about the Irish that go back to Victorian times.

— Ardal O'Hanlon

The English treatment of the Irish was appalling. It was absolutely appalling.

— Perdita Weeks

Why do we like being Irish? Partly because It gives us a hold on the sentimental English As members of a world that never…

— Louis MacNeice

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

— Samuel Johnson

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

— Spencer Matthews

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 very fair people, they never speak well of one another.

— Anonymous

The English and Americans dislike only some Irish--the same Irish that the Irish themselves detest, Irish writers--the ones that think.

— Brendan Behan

Sometimes the archaism of the language when it's spoken is why we are all in love with the Irish today.

— Diane Wakoski

If you are British, you soon get used to people not loving you. The Irish remind us of offenses from 100 years ago. Perhaps…

— Mick Jagger