Being irish Quote by Thomas Adcock

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

— Virginia Henley

To be Irish is to know that in the end the world will break your heart.

— Daniel Patrick Moynihan

What's the use of being Irish if the world doesn't break your heart?

— John F. Kennedy

“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

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

— Graham Parke

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

— J.G. Farrell

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

— Kate Atkinson

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

— George Bernard Shaw

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

— Matthew Quick

“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

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

— Jennifer Armstrong

“Irish. I should have known it. Such a gift of gab you’ve got, and all the charm in the world.”

— Nora Roberts