306 Irish Quotes for You to Enjoy

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

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

Bit Always Saint Patrick's Day Odd Irish Refuse English Found

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

Out Would Saint Patrick's Day Go Soup Irish Forks Raining

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

People Other Jews Irish Nationality Psychosis

I am a political prisoner. I am a political prisoner because I am a casualty of a perennial war that is being fought between the oppressed Irish people and an alien, oppressive, unwanted regime that refuses to withdraw from our land. Bobby Sands

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. Bobby Sands

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If you're Irish, it doesn't matter where you go - you'll find family. Victoria Smurfit

Family You Matter Find Saint Patrick's Day Go Irish Where

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

Respect Wonderful Cynical Everybody Everything Rather Irish Lack

Irish people give big hellos and very little goodbyes. Unless they're female, and then they spend five hours talking in the doorway to the person that's leaving their house. Dylan Moran

People Big Unless Spend Give Hours House Talking Female Leaving Very Irish Five Irish People Person Doorway Little Then

I think Irish women are strong as horses, incredibly loyal and for the most part, funny, witty, bright and optimistic in the face of devastating reality. Fionnula Flanagan

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I wasn't close to my father, but I wanted to be all my life. He had a funny sense of humor, and he laughed all the time - good and loud, like I do. He was a gay Irish gentleman and very good-looking. And he wanted to be close to me, too, but we never had much time together. Judy Garland

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That's what the holidays are for - for one person to tell the stories and another to dispute them. Isn't that the Irish way? Lara Flynn Boyle

Way Tell Another Saint Patrick's Day Irish Person Stories Holidays Them Dispute

In 'The Hobbit,' there were British, Irish, Australian and New Zealand actors, and Peter Jackson was adamant that we would all sound like we were from Britain somewhere. Aidan Turner

Somewhere Would New Like Sound Were Australian Irish Jackson Hobbit New Zealand Peter Peter Jackson Zealand Actor Adamant Britain British

I would love to go back to any time in European history, especially in Irish history, to the second or third century, prior to the arrival of Christianity when Paganism flourished. I can always go back there in my imagination, of course. It doesn't cost anything, and it's a form of time travel, I suppose. Gabriel Byrne

Love Time History Travel Christianity Imagination Back Would Cost Suppose Course Prior Always Arrival Go Time Travel Irish Any Form Anything Century Paganism European Second Third

My father was totally Irish, and so I went to Ireland once. I found it to be very much like New York, for it was a beautiful country, and both the women and men were good-looking. James Cagney

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

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The Irish fought the Italians until they started marrying them. And then they both fought the Jews until they started marrying them. Pete Hamill

Jews Marrying Both Until Italians Irish Them Then Fought Started

There is no way in which we can retrospectively erase the Treaty of Vienna or the Great Irish Famine. It is a peculiar feature of human actions that, once performed, they can never be recuperated. What is true of the past will always be true of it. Terry Eagleton

I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt. Edna O'Brien

Guilt Long Catholic Irish Irish Catholic Iceberg

Dad's Jewish and Irish, Mom's German and Scotch. I couldn't say I was anything. My last name isn't even Downey. My dad changed his name when he wanted to get into the Army and was underage. My real name is Robert Elias. I feel like I'm still looking for a home in some way. Robert Downey, Jr.

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