Parenting Quote by Julia Quinn

“That's Irish diplomacy for you. Huh? The ability to tell someone to go to hell and make them happy to be going.”

— Gabrielle Evans

“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

“This happened to your father and to you, Galway-sick to stay, longing to come up against the ends of the earth, and climb over.”

— Galway Kinnell

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

— Virginia Henley

“And he got going from there to America. Worked his passage, I s'pose, like a lot more. And I heard he did well in…

— Eddie Lenihan

“I thought Ireland was the land of one thousand welcomes.” – Willa. “I’m knocking it down to nine-hundred ninety nine.” – Shane.”

— Tessa Bailey

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

— Thomas Adcock

“An Irish wedding is a tame thing to an Irish funeral.”

— Mary Deasy

“If you ask an Irishman for directions, he might be quick to answer, Well if I were going there, I would not start here.”

— Steve Stockman

“It's all Irish politics." Hal looked at me sharply and shook a finger in my face. "That's bloody dangerous, getting involved in that. You…

— Kevin Hearne

“We Irish are the only people in the world who are actually nostalgic about the future.”

— Joe Biden

“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