Dublin Quotes

• Good puzzle would be cross Dublin without passing a pub.

  James Joyce

  Would Be, Crosses, Passing

  James Joyce (2016). “ULYSSES (Modern Classics Series)”, p.55, e-artnow

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• For myself, I always write about Dublin, because if I can get to the heart of Dublin I can get to the heart of all the cities of the world. In the particular is contained the universal.

  James Joyce

  Writing, Heart, Cities

  James Joyce (2016). “Stephen Hero & A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Two Autobiographical Novels): Including Biography of the Author”, p.386, e-artnow

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• When I die Dublin will be written on my heart.

  James Joyce

  Heart, Dies, Written

  "Ariel Sharon's memorial service and funeral - as it happened" by Matthew Weaver, www.theguardian.com. January 13, 2014.

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• Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as it was yesterday when you and I laid wreaths at the Garden of Remembrance.

  Queen Elizabeth II

  Garden, Yesterday, Remembrance

  Queen Elizabeth II's Dublin Castle Speech, www.telegraph.co.uk. May 18, 2011.

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• I'm not recognised that much. I'm just a bald man in glasses and there's a rash of them in Dublin. It'd be different if I had a mohican.

  Roddy Doyle

  Men, Glasses, Different

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• I want to give a picture of Dublin so complete that if the city suddenly disappeared from the earth it could be reconstructed out of my book.

  James Joyce

  Book, Cities, Giving

  James Joyce, Jeri Johnson (2008). “Ulysses”, p.25, Oxford Paperbacks

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• Fabulous place, Dublin is. The trouble is, you work hard and in Dublin you play hard as well.

  Bonnie Tyler

  Travel, Hard Work, Play Hard

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

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• Dublin ... is not only the capital of a nation, but the capital of an idea. The idea of Irishness is not universally beloved. Some people mock it, some hate it, some fear it. On the whole, though, I think it fair to say, the world interprets it chiefly as a particular kind of happiness, a happiness sometimes boozy and violent, but essentially innocent: and this ineradicable spirit of merriment informs the Dublin genius to this day.

  Jan Morris

  Hate, Thinking, Ideas

  Jan Morris (1976). “Travels”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• Night fell clean and cold in Dublin, and wind moaned beyond my room as if a million pipes played the air.

  Patricia Cornwell

  Night, Air, Wind

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• I go off into Dublin and two days later I'm spotted walking by the Liffey with a whole bunch of new friends.

  Ronnie Wood

  Friends, Two, Bunch

  "The do Ron Ron" by Mariella Frostrup, www.theguardian.com. December 2, 2001.

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• When's the last time you walked by a pub in Dublin and heard Irish music? When's the last time you ordered a coffee and heard an Irish accent?

  Michael Flatley

  Coffee, Lasts, Accents

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• I don't think I've actually drunk a beer for 15 years, except a few Guinnesses in Dublin, where it's the law.

  Ian Botham

  Beer, Thinking, Years

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• When I die, I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin. I wonder would they know it was me?

  J. P. Donleavy

  Funny, Death, Beer

  Ginger Man (1955) ch. 31

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• Dublin university contains the cream of Ireland: Rich and thick.

  Samuel Beckett

  Funny, Hilarious, Ireland And The Irish

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• It's a big con job. We have sold the myth of Dublin as a sexy place incredibly well; because it is a dreary little dump most of the time.

  Roddy Doyle

  Sexy, Jobs, Littles

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• I sure love Ireland. The first trip I ever made was last year when I did this record in Dublin.

  Michael W. Smith

  Travel, Journey, Years

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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, Ireland And The Irish, Absence

  The Hostage act 1 (1958)

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• I was happy in Dublin because it is very cosmopolitan.

  Rick Allen

  Travel

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• I came to Ireland 20 years ago as a student, hitch-hiking round for a week and staying in Dublin.

  Greta Scacchi

  Stay Strong, Hiking, Years

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• My city. I pondered that phrase, wondered why Barrons felt that way. He never said “our world.” He always said “your world.” But he called Dublin his city. Merely because he'd been in it so long? Or had Barrons, like me, been beguiled by her tawdry grace, fallen for her charm and colorful dualities? I looked around “my” bookstore. That was what I called it. Did we call the things of our heart our own, whether they were or not?

  Karen Marie Moning

  Heart, Our World, Cities

  "Dreamfever". Book by Karen Marie Moning, August 18, 2009.

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• Can it be possible that the painters make John the Baptist a Spaniard in Madrid and an Irishman in Dublin?

  Mark Twain

  Pain, Baptists, Madrid

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.4285, Delphi Classics

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• But one of the most fantastic things about Ireland and Dublin is that the pubs are like Paris and the cafe culture. And Dublin, in many ways, is a pub culture.

  Hugh Dancy

  Paris, Culture, Cafes

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• The Good Friday Agreement and the basic rights and entitlements of citizens that are enshrined within it must be defended and actively promoted by London and Dublin.

  Gerry Adams

  Friday, Rights, Agreement

  Gerry Adams (2007). “An Irish Eye”, Brandon Books

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• As a kid growing up in the back streets of Dublin I used to pretend I was playing in the World Cup with my mates out on the streets, and now I will be doing it for real.

  Robbie Keane

  Growing Up, Real, Kids

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• Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.

  James Joyce

  Birthday, Passion, Other Worlds

  James Joyce, Laurence Davies (1993). “Dubliners”, p.160, Wordsworth Editions

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