Irish Quotes

You know it’s summer in Ireland when the rain gets warmer – Hal Roach

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

It’s not that the Irish are cynical. It’s simply that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody. - Brendan Behan

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

Irish Americans are no more Irish than Black Americans are Africans. – Bob Geldof

The Irish are the only men who know how to cry for the dirty polluted blood of all the world. – Norman Mailer

The Irish gave the bagpipes to the Scotts as a joke, but the Scotts haven’t seen the joke yet. – Oliver Herford

The majority of the members of the Irish parliament are professional politicians, in the sense that otherwise they would not be given jobs minding mice at crossroads. - Flann O’Brien

To marry the Irish is to look for poverty. – J. P. Donleavy

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

Luck of the Irish? They have had 300 years of occupation, 2 famines and 30 years of civil war. Next stop, Vegas. – Danny Bhoy

The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.~ Harold Nicolson

When Irish eyes are smiling, watch your step. ~ Gerald Kersh

But I will say that living in Ireland has changed the cadence and fullness of speech, since the Irish love words and use as many of them in a sentence as possible. Anne McCaffrey

I find that I sent wolves not shepherds to govern Ireland, for they have left me nothing but ashes and carcasses to reign over! Elizabeth I

If Ireland is to become a new Ireland she must first become European. – James Joyce

In some parts of Ireland the sleep which knows no waking is always followed by a wake which knows no sleeping. Mary Wilson Little

Ireland is a great country to die or be married in. – Elizabeth Bowen

Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow. – James Joyce

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

Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it. – Pope John Paul II

Out of Ireland have we come, great hatred, little room, maimed us at the start. I carry from my mother’s womb a fanatic heart. – William Butler Yeats

Some mornings you wake up and think, gee I look handsome today. Other days I think, what am I doing in the movies? I wanna go back to Ireland and drive a forklift. – Liam Neeson

We are bound to lose Ireland in consequence of years of cruelty, stupidity and misgovernment and I would rather lose her as a friend than as a foe. William E. Gladstone

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

An Irishman can be worried by the consciousness that there is nothing to worry about. – Austin O’Malley

For an Irishman, talking is a dance. – Deborah Love

May those who love us love us. And those that don’t love us, May God turn their hearts. And if He doesn’t turn their hearts, May he turn their ankles, So we’ll know them by their limping. – Irish curse

Twenty years a child; twenty years running wild; twenty years a mature man — and after that, praying. – Irish proverb

Do not resent growing old. Many are denied the privilege. – Irish proverb

An Irishman is never drunk as long as he can hold onto one blade of grass and not fall off the face of the earth. – Irish proverb