Irish accent Quote by Kate Atkinson

“Do you ever feel that everything would be okay, if only you had an Irish accent?”

— Graham Parke

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

— Thomas Adcock

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

— George Bernard Shaw

“A real Irishman will give everything of himself--except that kernel of his soul which makes him a mystery to other peoples.”

— Jim Tully Beggars Abroad

“Irish improves a poet.”

— Sina Queyras

“For you can't hear Irish tunes without knowing you're Irish, and wanting to pound that fact into the floor.”

— Jennifer Armstrong

“accents started to be tinged with what was, stateside, referred to as an Irish brogue. I was finally”

— Allison Parr

“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

“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

“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

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

— Lew Bryson