Irish People Quote by Matthew Quick

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

— Joe Biden

“We Irish know how to make the most of the times of plenty, for sure enough they'll be famine again.”

— Karen Marie Moning

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

— Thomas Adcock

“Dublin was an English city, one of the loveliest. The most Irish thing about it was the shifting drab flow of the poor people”

— Jan Morris

“We survive. We're Irish. We have the souls of poets. We love our misery, we delight in the beauty of strange places and dark…

— Eilis Flynn

“You were born here. You and your children will have American stories, and they’ll be better than any sorrowful Irish tales. At the end,…

— Susan Denning

“One of my colleagues in the Senate, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, once made this simple but profound observation about us Irish: “To fail to understand…

— Joe Biden

“I seriously believe that you will retard the course of civilisation in Ireland by preventing the Irish people from having one good look at…

— James Joyce

“Irish heroes, for one reason or another, have come off, it must be owned, but poorly before the bar of history.”

— Emily Lawless

“Surely there’s no need to abandon one’s reason simply because one is in Ireland.”

— J.G. Farrell

“What I told you tonight - it isn't my story alone. It belongs to every Irish person living and dead. And every Irish person…

— Frank Delaney

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

— Virginia Henley