Being irish Quote by Samuel Johnson Download Open image “The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.” — Samuel Johnson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Being irish Fairs Funny irish Inspirational Ireland Ireland and the irish Irish writers Nationalism People Speak Wells
I can't think of anything you might say about Irish people that is absolutely true. — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
Maybe part of my animus against the English is the way they have always treated the Irish and they way they still think about… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
The Irish are great talkers and incredibly friendly, it's just in the DNA. — Charley Boorman Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Irish people are pragmatic. They understand that nobody is going to fix our problems but ourselves. — Enda Kenny Copy Share Image
The Irish are the damnedest race. They put so much emphasis on so many wrong things. — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
We Irish will never achieve anything; but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I love the Irish for their attachment to the faith and for many amiable and noble qualities, but they are deficient in good sense,… — Orestes Brownson Copy Share Image
It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody. — Brendan Behan Copy Share Image
The size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Pound St. Paul's Church into atoms, and consider any single atom; it is to be sure, good for nothing; but put all these atoms… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If our aim is to praise, we should forget to criticize; if our aim is to criticize, we should remember to praise — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The basis of all excellence is truth: he that professes love ought to feel its power. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The composition of Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend in the air, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles, and sometimes giving shelting… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The cherubim were never intended as an object of worship, because they were only the appendices to another thing. But a thing is then… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I was elected by the women of Ireland, who instead of rocking the cradle, rocked the system. — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
I think the genetics of being Irish are that you sort of prefer when it's rainy and cloudy. It's just genetic. — Kate Flannery Copy Share Image
“There's no sense to being Irish unless you know the world's going to break your heart.” — Thomas Adcock Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
I find being Irish quite a wearing thing. It takes so much work because it is a social construction. People think you are going… — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
I'm Irish and very proud of being Irish, but as an actor, your extraction should be secondary, really. You should be able to embody… — Cillian Murphy Copy Share Image
St. Patrick... one of the few saints whose feast day presents the opportunity to get determinedly whacked and make a fool of oneself all… — Charles Madigan Copy Share Image
Sheep are not considered the most intelligent animals but British scientist say humans may have underestimated the woolly creatures. In fact, the British scientific… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
