Funny Irish Sayings And Quotes

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“Who can doubt that between the English and the French, between the Scotch and the Irish, there are differences of character which have profoundly affected and still affect the course of history?”
– Goldwin Smith

“There are not many Irish people playing tennis!”
– Goran Ivanisevic

“I think now, more than anytime I can remember, bands are sounding pretty similar whether they’re English or American, from Manchester or London… or Leeds or Welsh or Irish.”
– Graham Coxon

“I had that stubborn streak, the Irish in me I guess.”
– Gregory Peck

“The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.”
– Harold Nicolson

“I must admit, even though I’m the product of two Jewish parents, I think the Irish temper got in there somewhere, so I’m going to check Mom‘s genealogy.”
– Harvey Weinstein

“I’m 100 percent Irish by birth, grew up Italian, and yet I constantly get cast as playing Jewish.”
– Heather Matarazzo

“It has to do with the fact that Ford, for all his greatness, is an Irish egomaniac, as anyone who knows him will say.”
– Henry Fonda

“I printed a list of Irish names from the Internet and my husband, Dave, saw Finley on the list. I really liked it but didn’t want to scare Dave off with my enthusiasm. So I used a little reverse psychology and let him think it was his idea.”
– Holly Marie Combs

“London in the ’70s was a pretty catastrophic dump, I can tell you. We had every kind of industrial trouble; we had severe energy problems; we were under constant terrorist attack from Irish terrorist groups who started a bombing campaign in English cities; politics were fantastically polarized between left and right.”
– Ian Mcewan

“The gun is not out of Irish politics.”
– Ian Paisley

“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

“To marry the Irish is to look for poverty.”
– J. P. Donleavy

“The Irish job was something that had to be sorted out.”
– Jack Charlton

“My Irish passport makes me look like a chief of staff for the Provisional IRA.”
– Jack Higgins

“The Irish Government can no longer stand by and see innocent people injured and perhaps worse.”
– Jack Lynch

“We have, therefore, directed the Irish Army authorities to have field hospitals established in County Donegal adjacent to Derry and at other points along the Border where they may be necessary.”
– Jack Lynch

“I’m Irish. I think about death all the time.”
– Jack Nicholson

“My father was totally Irish, and so I went to Ireland once. I found it to be very much like New York, for it was a beautiful country, and both the women and men were good-looking.”
– James Cagney

“There is not a single injustice in Northern Ireland that is worth the loss of a single British soldier or a single Irish citizen either.”
– James Callaghan

“I went further and further back through the centuries to get a sense of perspective but now at least I understand why Irish history evokes such strong passions and emotions.”
– James D’arcy

“I worked the drive-through at McDonald’s and tried out different accents – Italian, Russian, Irish.”
– James Franco

“No, men and women of the Irish race, we shall not fight for England. We shall fight for the destruction of the British Empire and the construction of an Irish republic.”
– James Larkin

“The best thanks we could offer those who went before and raised the Irish working class from their knees was to press forward with determination and enthusiasm towards the ultimate goal of their efforts, a Co-operative Commonwealth for Ireland.”
– James Larkin

“I listen to music mostly in the evening. I’ve come to love what is called world music, like the Zimbabwean Oliver Mtukudzi and the Colombian singer Marta Gomez. I also love the Irish folk singer Mary Black. Other favorites include Chet Baker, Eva Cassidy, and Billie Holiday.”
– Jeannette Walls

“Second-generation Hispanics marry non-Hispanics at a higher rate than second-generation Irish or Italians. Second-generation Hispanics’ English language capability rates are higher than previous immigrant groups’.”
– Jeb Bush

“I think there’s nothing better than laughing in life, so that’s nice, to be thought of as someone who can make someone laugh. It’s ’cause I think life is hard. You know, my dad was a really silly man. A great Irish silly man. And that’s fine.”
– Joan Cusack

“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

“It is sufficient to say, what everybody knows to be true, that the Irish population is Catholic, and that the Protestants, whether of the Episcopalian or Presbyterian Church, or of both united, are a small minority of the Irish people.”
– John Bright

“My father’s parents were Irish. Only a year before my father died, he and I went back to Ireland for a week to look at the old homestead.”
– John C. Hawkes

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