(353 quotes found)
“May God grant you always...A sunbeam to warm you, a moonbeam to charm you, a sheltering Angel so nothing can harm you. Laughter to cheer you. Faithful friends near you. And whenever you pray, Heaven to hear you.”
Irish Blessings
“The trouble with me is that I am a vindictive old shanty-Irish bitch.”
Eleanor Medill Patterson
“Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.”
William Butler Yeats
“The English are not happy unless they are miserable, the Irish are not at peace unless they are at war, and the Scots are not at home unless they are abroad”
George Orwell
“May the Irish hills caress you. May her lakes and rivers bless you. May the luck of the Irish enfold you. May the blessings of Saint Patrick behold you.”
“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
“The Irish - Be they kings, or poets, or farmers, They're a people of great worth, They keep company with the angels, And bring a bit of heaven here to earth”
Irish Sayings
“The Irish gave the bagpipes to the Scotts as a joke, but the Scotts haven't seen the joke yet.”
Oliver Herford
“I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way: by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could.”
George Bernard Shaw
“Wherever you go and whatever you do, May the luck of the Irish be there with you”
