Irishmen Quotes - Page 3

An Englishman, an Irishman and a Scotsman walk into a bar. The barman looks at them and says: "Is this some kind of a joke?"

Frank Carson

Funny, Humor, Bars

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For Irishmen, there is no football game to match rugby and if all our young men played rugby not only would we beat England and Wales but France and the whole lot of them put together.

Eamon de Valera

Football, Men, Games

"Judging Dev : A Reassessment of the Life and Legacy of Eamon De Valera" by Royal Irish Academy, 2007.

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A transplanted Irishman, German, Englishman is an American in one generation. A transplanted African is not one in five!

Barbara Chase-Riboud

Racism, United States, Generations

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The woodchopper reads the wisdom of the ages recorded on the paper that holds his dinner, then lights his pipe with it. When we ask for a scrap of paper for the most trivial use, it may have the confessions of Augustine or the sonnets of Shakespeare, and we not observe it. The student kindles his fire, the editor packs his trunk, the sportsman loads his gun, the traveler wraps his dinner, the Irishman papers his shanty, the schoolboy peppers the plastering, the belle pins up her hair, with the printed thoughts of men.

Henry David Thoreau

Reading, Book, Gun

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More Irishmen died fighting for Britain in World War I than died fighting against her in all of Ireland's bids for independence combined.

David Frum

War, Fighting, History

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Look at me, man, look at me and tell me I don't know what I'm about. I'm Conor Larkin. I'm an Irishman and I've had enough.

Leon Uris

Men, Had Enough, Looks

LEON URIS (1976). “TRINITY”

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In other words, the problem of empire-building is essentially mystical. It must somehow foster the impression that a man is great in the degree that his nation is great; that a German as such is superior to a Belgian as such; an Englishman, to an Irishman; an American, to a Mexican: merely because the first-named countries are in each case more powerful than their comparatives. And people who have no individual stature whatever are willing to accept this poisonous nonsense because it gives them a sense of importance without the trouble of any personal effort.

Felix Morley

Country, Powerful, Men

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On golfer Rory McIlroy's collapse in the final round of the 2011 Masters: We had hoped to compare the young Northern Irishman to the great Masters champions but instead had to reach for the compendium of great golfing train wrecks.

Matt Dickinson

Failure, Train Wrecks, Champion

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I was born in the island of Ireland. I have Irish traits in me - we don't all have the traits of what came from Scotland, there is the celtic factor... and I am an Irishman because you cannot be an Ulsterman without being an Irishman.

Ian Paisley

Islands, Scotland, Celtic

"Unionist Politics and the Politics of Unionism Since the Anglo-Irish Agreement". Book by Feargal Cochrane, 1997.

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I would never repudiate the fact that I am an Irishman

Ian Paisley

Facts

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Now let's take up the minorities in our civilisation, shall we? Bigger the population, the more minorities. Don't step on the toes of the dog-lovers, the cat-lovers, doctors, lawyers, merchants, chiefs, Mormons, Baptists, Unitarians, second-generation Chinese, Swedes, Italians, Germans, Texans, Brooklynites, Irishmen, people from Oregon or Mexico. The people in this book, this play, this TV serial are not meant to represent any actual painters, cartographers, mechanics anywhere. The bigger your market, Montag, the less you handle controversy, remember that!

Ray Bradbury

Dog, Book, Cat

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You ran away from an adorable Irishman who wanted to se you naked?

Christine Warren

Adorable, Naked, Wanted

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You're a good Irishman, right?" When Butch nodded, V said, "Irish, Irish… let me think. Yeah…" Vishous's eyes sobered, and in a voice that cracked, he said, "May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face and the rains fall soft upon your fields. And… my dearest friend… until we meet again may the Lord hold you in the palm of His hand.

J.R. Ward

Fall, Rain, Eye

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As a consequence [of a closed economic circle], in 1912 there was not a single Irishman who sat on a single board of a major Boston bank.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Boston, Circles, Boards

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The only census of the senses, so far as I am aware, that ever before made them more than five, was the Irishman's reckoning of seven senses. I presume the Irishman's seventh sense was common sense; and I believe that the possession of that virtue by my countrymen-I speak as an Irishman.

Lord Kelvin

Believe, Science, Common Sense

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You may have noticed there are three things an Irishman always puts his soul in: his religion, his sports, and his politics. If you ever find an Irishman who is wishy-washy on any one of those, you can make up your mind to it he is not the true article at all.

Mary Deasy

Sports, Soul, Mind

Mary Deasy (1948). “The Hour of Spring”

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The Irishman in English literature may be said to have been born with an apology in his mouth.

James Connolly

Apology, Literature, Mouths

James Connolly (1971). “Labour in Irish History”, p.22, Lulu.com

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In New Haven, Conn., when I was growing up, there were two sorts of Irish. There were the "drugstore cowboy" micks, who hung around the Elm Street poolroom over Longley's Lunch. And there were the earnest young Irishmen who fought their way up from the Grand Avenue saloonkeeper backgrounds of their fathers, went through Yale Law School, and have now found high place by the preferment of local politics or in the teaching profession.

James T. Farrell

Growing Up, Father, Book

JAMES T. FARRELL (1938). “STUDS LONIGAN”

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Who better than an Irishman can understand the Indians, while still being stirred by tales of the US cavalry?

John Ford

Hollywood, Film, Tales

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Today a Scot is leading a British army in France [Field Marshall Douglas Haig], another is commanding the British Grand Fleet at sea [Admiral David Beatty], while a third directs the Imperial General Staff at home [Sir William Roberton]. The Lord Chancellor is a Scot [Viscount Finlay]; so are the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Foreign Secretary [Bonar Law and Arthur Balfour]. The Prime Minister is a Welshman [David Lloyd George], and the First Lord of the Admiralty is an Irishman [Lord Carson]. Yet no one has ever brought in a bill to give home rule to England!

John Hay Beith

Home, Army, Sea

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He knew the world and its absurdities as only an intelligent Irishman can; which is to say that where his knowledge or memory failed him, his imagination was always ready to fill the gap.

John Fowles

Memories, Intelligent, Imagination

JOHN FOWLES “THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN”

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Now it's a war on women; tomorrow it's going to be a war on left-handed Irishmen or something like that.

Paul Ryan

War, Tomorrow, Left Handed

"Paul Ryan Mocks ‘War On Women’ At Private Fundraiser". www.huffingtonpost.com. October 19, 2012.

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Scots are Jocks,WelshmenTaffies, and Irishmen Paddies or Micks but?it is noticeable there is no similar designation for the English.

Anna Pavlova

Paddy, Jocks, Scots

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The poor silly-clever Irishman takes off his hat to God's Englishman.

George Bernard Shaw

Clever, Silly, Hats

1904 Larry Doyle. John Bull's Other Island, act 1.

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Although the Irish language is connected with the many recollections that twine around the hearts of Irishmen, yet the superior utility of the English tongue, as the medium of all modern communication, is so great that I can witness without a sigh the gradual decline of the Irish language.

Daniel O'Connell

Communication, Heart, History

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