Irish Quotes

The sea, the snotgreen sea, the scrotumtightening sea.

~ James Joyce

Damn it all, MacMurrough, are you telling me you are an unspeakable of the Oscar Wilde sort?’‘If you mean am I Irish, the answer is yes.

~ Jamie O'neill

We are the rocks and reefs of the human sea, tumultuous outcrops, magnets for wrecks. The peaks of mountains you cannot see: that's us, all right. Dark even on the brightest day. Stony and defiant of the prevailing currents until we are eventually worn down and dissolved. Sometimes soaked and sometimes dry as a bone. Hammered by tides and grimly standing our ground against the pounding. Probably even secretly enjoying the pounding.

~ Brian Doyle

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

~ Stewart Stafford

Let justice be done tho the heavens fall.

~ Michael Davitt

Her smile increased. She had perfect white regular teeth; Irish, Juliana decided. Only Irish blood could give that jawline such femininity.

~ Philip K. Dick

Because you’re not a one-night girl, Irish.” (...) “You’re my forever girl.

~ K.a. Tucker

Many people die of thirst but the Irish are born with one.

~ Spike Milligan

My people - before I was changed - they exchanged this as a sign of devotion. It's a Claddagh ring. The hands represent friendship; the crown represents loyalty... and the heart... Well, you know... Wear it with the heart pointing towards you. It means you belong to somebody. Like this.

~ Joss Whedon

To be Irish is to know that in the end the world will break your heart.

~ Daniel Patrick Moynihan

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

~ Winston Churchill

Being Irish, I always had this love of words.

~ Kenneth Branagh

There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting.

~ John Millington Synge

Being Irish is very much a part of who I am. I take it everywhere with me.

~ Colin Farrell

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

~ Brendan Behan

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

~ Brian Dennehy

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

I'm Irish, so I'm used to odd stews. I can take it. Just throw a lot of carrots and onions in there and I'll call it dinner.

~ Liam Neeson

Ninety percent I'll spend on good times, women and Irish Whiskey. The other ten percent I'll probably waste.

~ Tug Mcgraw

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

~ Gerry Adams

The gun is not out of Irish politics.

~ Ian Paisley

I just wasn't cut out to be a Chinese Tiger Mom. I'm more of an Irish Setter Dad.

~ P. J. O'rourke