Being Irish Quotes - Page 3

• I can resist everything except temptation.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sarcastic, Witty

  Lady Windermere's Fan act 1 (1892) See Balzac 1; Clementina Graham 1; Mae West 19; Wilde 25

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• Eternal is the fact that the human creature born in Ireland and brought up in its air is Irish. I have lived for twenty years in Ireland and for seventy-two in England; but the twenty came first and in Britain I am still a foreigner and shall die one.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Air, Years, Two

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• Being born in a stable does not make one a horse.

  Duke of Wellington

  Horse, Doe, Born

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• I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.

  Samuel Beckett

  Teaching, Learning, Tunes

  Samuel Beckett (2009). “Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable”, p.329, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• New York is my Lourdes, where I go for spiritual refreshment... a place where you're least likely to be bitten by a wild goat.

  Brendan Behan

  Funny, Spiritual, New York

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• The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you.

  Brendan Behan

  Love, Life, Important

  Brendan Behan (1968). “The wit of Brendan Behan”

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• Ireland is where strange tales begin and happy endings are possible.

  Charles Haughey

  Ireland And The Irish, Strange, Happy Endings

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• In Ireland the inevitable never happens and the unexpected constantly occurs.

  John Pentland Mahaffy

  Ireland And The Irish, Unexpected, Funny Irish

  "Mahaffy". P. 79. Book by W. B. Stanford and R. B. McDowell, 1971.

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• 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

  Appreciation, Land, Usual

  George Bernard Shaw (1977). “The Portable Bernard Shaw”, Viking Adult

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• St. Patrick... one of the few saints whose feast day presents the opportunity to get determinedly whacked and make a fool of oneself all under the guise of acting Irish.

  Charles Madigan

  Beer, Opportunity, Acting

  "Patrick,we Hardly Knew Ye". articles.chicagotribune.com. March 14, 1997.

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• 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

  Respect, Cynical, Ireland And The Irish

  "Brendan Behan, Interviews and Recollections". Book by E. H. Mikhail, Vol. 2 (p. 186), 1982.

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• The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.

  Samuel Johnson

  Inspirational, People, Ireland And The Irish

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Edmond Malone (1824). “The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., Comprehending an Account of His Studies, and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order: A Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons; and Various Original Pieces of His Composition, Never Before Published; the Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great Britain, for Near Half a Century During which He Flourished”, p.290

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• The Irish gave the bagpipes to the Scotts as a joke, but the Scotts haven't seen the joke yet.

  Oliver Herford

  Funny, Ireland And The Irish, Bagpipes

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• In heaven there is no beer. That's why we drink ours here.

  Frank Yankovic

  Beer, Heaven, Irish Drinking

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• I think the Irish woman was freed from slavery by bingo. They can go out now, dressed up, with their handbags and have a drink and play bingo. And they deserve it.

  John B. Keane

  Thinking, Play, Ireland And The Irish

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• There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Humor, Things In Life

  The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 1 (1891) See Behan 3; Modern Proverbs 71

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• Here's to our wives and girlfriends...may they never meet!

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Witty, Girlfriend

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• I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt.

  Edna O'Brien

  Long, Catholic, Guilt

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• It's a loser's emblem (swastika), because the Nazis lost the war. It's ridiculous to suggest we are involved with fascists. All my best friends are black, gay, Irish or criminals.

  John Lydon

  War, Gay, Black

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• When you marry your mistress, you create a job vacancy.

  James Goldsmith

  Love, Funny, Marriage

  "Marital fidelity? What a terribly common idea" by Emma Soames, www.theguardian.com. July 17, 2010.

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• Irishness is not primarily a question of birth or blood or language; it is the condition of being involved in the Irish situation, and usually of being mauled by it.

  Conor Cruise O'Brien

  Blood, Ireland And The Irish, Language

  "Irishness". New Statesman, January 17, 1959.

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• People take pride in being Irish-American and Italian-American. They have a particular culture that infuses the whole culture and makes it richer and more interesting. I think if we can expand that attitude to embrace African-Americans and Latino-Americans and Asian-Americans, then we will be in a position where all our kids can feel comfortable with the worlds they are coming out of, knowing they are part of something larger.

  Barack Obama

  Attitude, Kids, Pride

  Source: www.politico.com

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• I'm hugely proud of being Irish. And I don't even know what that means. I just know that it's true.

  Domhnall Gleeson

  Mean, Proud, Knows

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think the genetics of being Irish are that you sort of prefer when it's rainy and cloudy. It's just genetic.

  Kate Flannery

  Thinking, Rainy, Genetics

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• There's no sense to being Irish unless you know the world's going to break your heart.

  Thomas Adcock

  Heart, World, Break

  Thomas Adcock (1995). “Drown All the Dogs”, Pocket Books

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