Irish Quotes

Put an Irishman on the spit and you can always get another Irishman to turn him.

There is an Irish way of paying compliments as though they were irresistible truths which makes what would otherwise be an impertinence delightful.

Being Irish was a big thing for me, particularly growing up in Chicago.

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

Let justice be done tho the heavens fall.

Love is patient. Love is kind. It bears all things. Love never fails. Love is as strong as death.

If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks.

The Irish Republican Army has kept every commitment made by its leadership.

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

I started hitching about the country when I was 16 or 17 years old. I found the music that was played around the country - Irish music - had a particular resonance.

You know it is summer in Ireland when the rain gets warmer.

Ireland is a fruitful mother of genius, but a barren nurse.

Ireland is a peculiar society in the sense that it was a nineteenth century society up to about 1970 and then it almost bypassed the twentieth century.

The way I see it is that all the ol' guff about being Irish is a kind of nonsense. I mean, I couldn't be anything else no matter what I tried to be. I couldn't be Chinese or Japanese.

Dublin university contains the cream of Ireland: Rich and thick.

The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.

I have a thing for red-haired Irish boys, as we know.

The Irish seem to have more fire about them than the Scots.

An Irishman can be worried by the consciousness that there is nothing to worry about.

When Irish eyes are smiling, watch your step.

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

I come from an Irish Catholic family, and hell-raising is part of the DNA.

We have been told to ask about everything: Will it leave us free?

It is a great comfort to a rambling people to know that somewhere there is a permanent home--perhaps it is the most final of the comforts they ever really know.

We never get over our fathers, and we’re not required to. (Irish Proverb)

The gun is not out of Irish politics.

I find being Irish quite a wearing thing. It takes so much work because it is a social construction. People think you are going to be this, this, and this.

I think I'm going to keep my Irish accent forever now in any movie I make, because chicks dig it and that's all I care about now!

I grew up in a big Irish family, where everyone played the traditional sports, and I remember my grandfather saying to me, 'Why are you playing that communist game? You won't get anywhere with it.'

I can do Shakespeare, Ibsen, English accents, Irish accents, no accent, stand on my head, tap dance, sing, look 17 or look 70.

My mother came from an Irish family of 11 kids and, of course, had a sister who was a nun, so I spent time at a convent and with an aunt and uncle who lived in New York and took me to the theater.

I've heard some duff Irish accents. The worst must be Mickey Rourke.

Caitriona Balfe, who is Irish, is also in my movie. I asked her to play her Irish accent in the movie, but her own brogue is so faint that I had to keep pumping it up.

I think the genetics of being Irish are that you sort of prefer when it's rainy and cloudy. It's just genetic.

Blue grass was the outgrowth of Irish music. As a matter of fact a lot the tunes, a lot of the melodies and the jigs... have different names but are actually the same tunes.

Why do we like being Irish? Partly because It gives us a hold on the sentimental English As members of a world that never was, Baptized with fairy water

I used to go to the school folk club with my songs when I was only 13 or so and say "this is a traditional folk song" and sing it with a bad Irish accent to disguise the real source.

I don't feel I have to defend myself for being English or for being Irish, because, in a way, I don't feel either. And, in another way, of course, I'm both.

I come from the tradition of a big Irish family that loves to sing. I love to perform.

The problem with being Irish... is having 'Riverdance' on your back. It's a burden at times.

I don't want to earn a living, I want to live.

The Irish way of telling a story is a complex and elaborate one, complete with wild exaggerations, a certain delight in improbable fantasy, and a heightened sense of drama.

It’s simply this:the Irish kiss, a snog o’ bliss, be blessed luckfrom any miss.

Lost: Heartbeat. Last seen being chased away by an Irishman’s shameless grin. Reward if returned.

I'm Irish yet I don't drink as I refuse to be a stereotype and live down to the expectations of others.

Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar and fat.

Bí ann nó astáimse ag triall Ortagus má tácuirim geasa Ortmé a shábháilón dreama deirgur fear fuarsa spéir Thú.

Our place is here, our time is now!" Killian firmly declared.

I've no plans to couple with anyone other than my new bride for the next century or so, and it feels as though it's takin' a century to get to it!

In truth, I doubt I'd notice if a herd of giant Irish elk stomped through the entire chamber when I'm in the act of lovin' you, Lainna!