“It is not that the Irish are cynical. It is instead that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody.”
– Brendan Behan(1923-1964) – Irish dramatist, author
“In order to find his equal, an Irishman is pressured to talk to God.”
— Stephen Braveheart
“St. Patrick’s Day is an enchanted time — a day to start transforming winter’s dreams into summer’s magic.”
– Adrienne Cook
“When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Ireland.”
– J. P. Dunleavy
“This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever.”
– Sigmund Freud (about the Irish)
“There is an Irish way of paying compliments as though they were irresistible truths which makes what would otherwise be an impertinence delightful.”
– Katherine Tynan Hinkson
“You have got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.”
— Irish Proverb
“The most beautiful audio of all is the audio of what occurs.”
— Irish Proverb
“A good laugh and a long rest are the greatest cures in the doctor’s guide.”
— Irish Proverb
“You never skip the h2o till the nicely has operate dry.”
— Irish Proverb
“Half a loaf of bread is much better than no bread at all.”
— Irish Proverb
“Keep in mind even if you loose all, maintain your good title for if you loose that you are worthless.”
— Irish Proverb
“An Irishman is never drunk as long as he can hold onto one blade of grass to maintain from falling off the earth.”
— Irish Saying
“Do not be breaking your shin on a stool that’s not in your way.”
— Irish Saying
“Ireland is wealthy in literature that understands a soul’s yearnings, and dancing that understands a pleased heart.”
– Margaret Jackson
“Only Irish coffee offers in a single glass all 4 important meals groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar, and fat.”
– Alex Levine
“O Ireland is not it grand you look–Like a bride in her wealthy adornin? And with all the pent-up love of my heart I bid you the leading o’ the mornin!”
– John Locke “The Exile’s Return”
“In Ireland the inevitable never occurs and the unexpected constantly happens.”
– Sir John Pentland Mahaffy
“On she went, and her maiden smile In safety lighted her round the Green Isle And blest forever was she who relied On Erin’s honor and Erin’s pride.”
– Thomas Moore
“When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously tenacious.”
– Edna O’Brien (1932? )
“Why should Ireland be treated as a geographical fragment of England . . . Ireland is not a geographical fragment, but a nation.”
– Charles Stewart Parnell (1846-1891)
“Eternal is the fact that the human creature born in Ireland and brought up in its air is Irish. I have lived for 20 many years in Ireland and for seventy-two in England but the 20 came first, and in Britain I am nonetheless a foreigner and shall die one.”
– George Bernard Shaw (1856?1950 )
“There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting.”
– John Millington Synge (1871?1909)
“Anyone acquainted with Ireland knows that the early morning of St. Patrick’s Day consists of the evening of the seventeenth of March flavored strongly with the early morning of the 18th.”
— Unknown
“We . . . are no petty people. We are one of the fantastic stocks of Europe. We are the people of Burke we are the people of Swift, the people of Emmet, the people of Parnell. We have produced most of the modern literature of this nation. We have produced the greatest of its political intelligence.”
– W. B. Yeats (1865?1939) speech in the Irish Senate, June eleven, 1925
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