Browsing Topic Best Ireland And The Irish Quotes

You know, I have a theory about Charlie Haughey. If you give him enough rope, he’ll hang you.

I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.

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

When I get a very generous introduction like that I explain that I’m emotionally moved, but on the other hand I’m Irish and the Irish are very emotionally moved. My mother is Irish and she cries during beer commercials.

I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.

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

Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how it’s done, they’ve seen it done every day, but they’re unable to do it themselves.

They won’t break me because the desire for freedom, and the freedom of the Irish people, is in my heart. The day will dawn when all the people of Ireland will have the desire for freedom to show. It is then that we will see the rising of the moon.

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

Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.

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

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

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.

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

Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Ireland, sir, for good or evil, is like no other place under heaven, and no man can touch its sod or breathe its air without becoming better or worse.

I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way: by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could.

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

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

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

Beware of the man whose God is in the skies.

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

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

When Irish eyes are smiling, watch your step.

God invented whiskey to keep the Irish from ruling the world.

Eternal is the fact that the human creature born in Ireland and brought up in its air is Irish. I have lived for twenty years in Ireland and for seventy-two in England; but the twenty came first and in Britain I am still a foreigner and shall die one.

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

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

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

I’m an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt.

Could he not find in his heart the generosity to acknowledge that there is a small nation that stood alone not for one year or two, but for several hundred years against aggression; that endured spoliations, famines, massacres in endless succession; that was clubbed many times into insensibility, but that each time on returning [to] consciousness took up the fight anew; a small nation that could never be got to accept defeat and has never surrendered her soul?

There’s many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

Here’s to our wives and girlfriends…may they never meet!