Irish Quotes

Irish Quote of the day

Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

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

I had that stubborn streak, the Irish in me I guess.

Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.

Until we meet again, may the good Lord take a liking to you.

Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.

I was elected by the women of Ireland, who instead of rocking the cradle, rocked the system.

Ninety percent I'll spend on good times, women and Irish Whiskey. The other ten percent I'll probably waste.

There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting.

Why should Ireland be treated as a geographical fragment of England - Ireland is not a geographical fragment, but a nation.

I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that.

My dad's Irish music was such a huge influence.

I grew up in a very old-fashioned Roman Catholic, Italian-Irish family in Philly.

Ireland is where strange tales begin and happy endings are possible.

I'm Irish. I think about death all the time.

In heaven there is no beer. That's why we drink ours here.

In Ireland the inevitable never happens and the unexpected constantly occurs.

The Irish gave the bagpipes to the Scotts as a joke, but the Scotts haven't seen the joke yet.

I used to go missing a lot... Miss Canada, Miss United Kingdom, Miss World.

and yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.

Irish Alzheimer's: you forget everything except the grudges

When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously tenacious.

We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.

Being Irish is very much a part of who I am. I take it everywhere with me.

I grew up with a very strong Irish accent.

It's better to spend money like there's no tomorrow than to spend tonight like there's no money.

The English and Americans dislike only some Irish--the same Irish that the Irish themselves detest, Irish writers--the ones that think.

A Kerry footballer with an inferiority complex is one who thinks he's just as good as everybody else.

I think the Irish woman was freed from slavery by bingo. They can go out now, dressed up, with their handbags and have a drink and play bingo. And they deserve it.

One drink is to many for me and a thousand not enough.

I'm a fanatic about Irish music. I love its moody, modal and timeless quality. I'm different from some other composers, because I don't look at this as just a job. I think of music as art.

We have a tradition of passing our history orally and singing a lot of it and writing songs about it and there's kind of a calling in Irish voices when they're singing in their Irish accent.

All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.

I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the same.

Many people die of thirst but the Irish are born with one.

What's the use of being Irish if you can't be thick?

Oh, he occasionally takes an alcoholiday.

Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.

I'm Irish, so I'm used to odd stews. I can take it. Just throw a lot of carrots and onions in there and I'll call it dinner.

Irishness is not primarily a question of birth or blood or language; it is the condition of being involved in the Irish situation, and usually of being mauled by it.

When's the last time you walked by a pub in Dublin and heard Irish music? When's the last time you ordered a coffee and heard an Irish accent?

I'm not so much a rock star, d'ya know what I mean? I play Irish music. There's really no age when you stop playing Irish music. Even if I retired from playing onstage, I'd still be singing in pubs.

And the merry love the fiddle, and the merry love to dance.

Cheaters never prosper, unless they get away with it.

The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad, For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad.

The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small.

I'm hugely proud of being Irish. And I don't even know what that means. I just know that it's true.

The problem with Ireland is that it's a country full of genius, but with absolutely no talent.

My influences are with Irish music, church music and classical music.

I had a very happy childhood, which is unsuitable if you're going to be an Irish writer.