Men Quote by Julie Klausner

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

— Thomas Adcock

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

— Kate Atkinson

“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

“Why would she do that?" "Because she's a Yankee - a Maine Yankee, the worst kind. On a given day, they can make the…

— Stephen King

There's something about the Irish that is remarkable.

— Fiona Shaw

“I don't hate the English and I don't know do I love the Irish. But I love him. I'm sure of that now. And…

— Jamie O'Neill

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

— Virginia Henley

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

— Matthew Quick

“Well, they may not be civilized, but they are certainly confident--and this confidence is one of the open-handed pleasures of early Irish literature.”

— Thomas Cahill

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

“Irish has not so much a common formula as a common character.”

— Lew Bryson

“Irish improves a poet.”

— Sina Queyras