(353 quotes found)
“When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously tenacious.”
Edna O'Brien
“The Irish don't know what they want and are prepared to fight to the death to get it”
Sidney Littlewood
“Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.”
Brendan Behan
“Here's to a long life, and a merry one; a quick death, and an easy one; a pretty girl, and an honest one; a cold beer - and another one!”
Old Irish toast
“The Irish are hearty, the Scotch plausible, the French polite, the Germans good-natured, the Italians courtly, the Spaniards reserved and decorous - the English alone seem to exist in taking and giving offense”
William Hazlitt
“Irish Alzheimer's: you forget everything except the grudges”
Judy Collins
“May you never forget what is worth remembering, nor ever remember what is best forgotten”
Irish Blessings
“Our Irish blunders are never blunders of the heart.”
Maria Edgeworth
“I suffer from Irish-Catholic guilt. Guilt is a good reality check. It keeps that 'do what makes you happy' thing in check.”
Edward Burns
“The Irish forgive their great men when they are safely buried.”
Irish Proverb
