Ireland And The Irish Quotes - Page 4

• The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.

  Harold Nicolson

  Enemy, Wish, Want

  Harold Nicolson (1943). “The Desire to Please: A Story of Hamilton Rowan and the United Irishmen”

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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, Bagpipes, Being Irish

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  I'm Irish. I think about death all the time.

  Jack Nicholson

  Thinking, Ireland

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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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• 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, Bingo

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

  John Pentland Mahaffy

  Unexpected, Funny Irish, Inevitable

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

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

  John Millington Synge

  Language, Soothing, Being Irish

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

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• 'A Naval History of Britain' which begins in the 7th century has to explain what it means by Britain. My meaning is simply the British Isles as a whole, but not any particular nation or state or our own day... 'Britain' is not a perfect word for this purpose, but 'Britain and Ireland' would be both cumbersome and misleading, implying an equality of treatment which is not possible. Ireland and the Irish figure often in this book, but Irish naval history, in the sense of the history of Irish fleets, is largely a history of what might have been rather than what actually happened.

  Nicholas Rodger

  Book, Mean, Perfect

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