Being Irish Quotes

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

  William Butler Yeats

  Joy, Tragedy, Abiding

  "Spencer Tracy: A Biography". Book by James Curtis, www.indiewire.com. 2011.

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

  Colin Farrell

  Who I Am, Funny Irish, Take Me

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Irish Alzheimer's: you forget everything except the grudges

  Judy Collins

  Alzheimer's, Forget Everything, Funny Irish

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• This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever.

  Sigmund Freud

  Funny, Sarcastic, Witty

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• What's the use of being Irish if you can't be thick?

  Billy Conn

  Boxing, Use, Ireland And The Irish

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• Ireland, sir, for good or evil, is like no other place under heaven, and no man can touch its sod or breathe its air without becoming better or worse.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Men, Air, Becoming Better

  George Bernard Shaw (2004). “John Bull's Other Island”, p.158, 1st World Publishing

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

  Winston Churchill

  Saint George, Drunk, Apathy

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

  Brendan Behan

  Rain, Ireland And The Irish, Soup

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• God invented whiskey to keep the Irish from ruling the world.

  Ed McMahon

  Drinking, Drunk, Alcohol

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• I was elected by the women of Ireland, who instead of rocking the cradle, rocked the system.

  Mary Robinson

  Politics, Cradle, Ireland

  "Big business becomes Mrs Robinson's affair" by Terry Slavin, www.theguardian.com. December 11, 2004.

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• All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.

  Sean O'Casey

  Inspirational, Funny Life, Drama

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• I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.

  Brendan Behan

  Life, Dublin, Ireland And The Irish

  The Hostage act 1 (1958)

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• When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?'

  Quentin Crisp

  Peace, Atheist, Believe

  "The Wit and Wisdom of Quentin Crisp". Book by Quentin Crisp, 1984.

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

  John Millington Synge

  Ireland And The Irish, Language, Soothing

  John Millington Synge (2008). “The Complete Works of J. M. Synge”, p.396, Wordsworth Editions

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  I love deadlines. I like the whooshing noise they make as they go by.

  Douglas Adams

  Love, Inspirational, Hilarious

  "The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time (Dirk Gently, Book 3)". Book by Douglas Adams, 2002.

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• You know it is summer in Ireland when the rain gets warmer.

  Hal Roach

  Summer, Rain, Ireland And The Irish

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• I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the same.

  Iris Murdoch

  Nice, Women, Reality

  The Red and the Green ch. 2 (1965)

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• Being Irish was a big thing for me, particularly growing up in Chicago.

  Lara Flynn Boyle

  Growing Up, Chicago, Bigs

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• Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.

  James Thurber

  Funny, Witty, Maturity

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• Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.

  Shane Leslie

  Ireland And The Irish, Speech, St Patrick

  Shane Leslie (1936). “American wonderland: memories of four tours in the United States of America (1911-1935).”, London, M. Joseph

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• When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously tenacious.

  Edna O'Brien

  Character, Tree, Ireland And The Irish

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• You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Motivational, Cute

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If this humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain.

  William Howard Taft

  Humor, Race, People

  "Irish Humor". Address in Hot Springs, Virginia, August 05, 1908.

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• The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad, For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Song, War, Men

  Ballad of the White Horse (1911) bk. 2, p. 35

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• If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sarcastic, Witty

  1895 Mrs Cheveley speaking. An Ideal Husband, act 3.

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