Top Irish Quotes

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

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... W...

Irish Definition

(a.) Of or pertaining to Ireland or to its inhabitants; produced in Ireland.

(n. sing. & pl.) The natives or inhabitants of Ireland, esp. the Celtic natives or their descendants.

(n. sing. & pl.) The language of the Irish; the Hiberno-Celtic.

(n. sing. & pl.) An old game resembling backgammon.

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

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

Americans may say they love our accents (I have been accused of sounding 'like Princess Di') but the more thoughtful ones resent and rather dislike us as a nation and people, as friends of mine have f...

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

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

The earth makes a sound as of sighs and the last drops fall from the emptied cloudless sky. A small boy, stretching out his hands and looking up at the blue sky, asked his mother how such a thing was...

All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.

I'm not singing for the future I'm not dreaming of the past I'm not talking of the fist time I never think about the last

The writing style which is most natural for you is bound to echo the speech you heard when a child. English was the novelist Joseph Conrad's third language, and much of that seems piquant in his use o...

Oh, trust me Sydney Tar Ponds, you aren’t the first Personification to be forgotten by somebody ordinary, Mearth sighed with a falsely-reassuring smile. Alecto stepped back from her, glaring hatefully...

Oh, now my Erin, she'd smile down on me no matter where I walked. Grandpop smiled that little smile again. But I'd be separated from her, and I'd feel that separation in my soul, you see?Nathan shook...

A proper Irishman always does what a lady asks him. Sure an' it's been the ruin av us. We're at the mercy av the petticoats.

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

Irish people marry late, as a rule. We have that potato-famine DNA from the old country, that mentality where you don't give birth to anything until you have the potatoes all stored up to feed it. My...

The sea, the snotgreen sea, the scrotumtightening sea.

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

More guilt, guilt, guilt. That's the Irish condition.

He had been thinking of how landscape moulds a language. It was impossible to imagine these hills giving forth anything but the soft syllables of Irish, just as only certain forms of German could be s...