Funny Irish Sayings And Quotes

by allinspiration.com

“Our Irish blunders are never blunders of the heart.”
– Maria Edgeworth

“My mother is Irish, my father is black and Venezuelan, and me – I’m tan, I guess.”
– Mariah Carey

“Let everyone leave all the guns – British guns and Irish guns – outside the door.”
– Martin McGuinness

“People do think I’m Jewish. But we’re Irish Catholic. My father had a brogue.”
– Martin Short

“I’m from durable stock. I’m made to work. I’m Irish.”
– Mary McCormack

“I am the indoctrinated child of two lapsed Irish Catholics. Which is to say: I am not religious.”
– Meghan O’Rourke

“I am delighted with the strong vote I have received. My message of positive leadership, patriotism and commitment clearly was resonating with tens of thousands of ordinary Irish people.”
– Michael D. Higgins

“I will be a President for all the people, whether they voted for me or not, whether they are young or old and particularly for the Irish abroad. I’m looking forward to it and I think it will be exciting and wonderful.”
– Michael D. Higgins

“The mandate I have received and for which I will speak with heart and head to implement over the next seven years had its four pillars – an inclusive citizenship, equality and participation and respect in a creative society creating an excellence in everything we Irish do.”
– Michael D. Higgins

“The presidency is an independent office and the Irish people whom I appreciate so much and I take with such responsibility have given a very clear mandate on a very clear set of ideas to me, as the ninth president.”
– Michael D. Higgins

“I’m proud of my Irish heritage and culture and this show will feature a lot of Irish dancing.”
– Michael Flatley

“You think that religion is a thing that is there to help you and to see you through life, and then you wake up one morning and find the entire Irish situation, the civil war that’s based on religion.”
– Midge Ure

“I grew up mostly with classical, big band, and a lot of Irish music – I really didn’t start listening to rock and roll until I was maybe sixteen.”
– Moira Kelly

“Perhaps our Irish friends should not so completely turn their backs on their historical dishes, no matter how many jokes they might have to endure.”
– Nick Clooney

“I have been interested in Irish traditional music for the past few years.”
– Nobuo Uematsu

“The Irish are the only men who know how to cry for the dirty polluted blood of all the world.”
– Norman Mailer

“Yelling Irish, you can sound like an angry Leprechaun.”
– Norman Reedus

“The Irish gave the bagpipes to the Scotts as a joke, but the Scotts haven’t seen the joke yet.”
– Oliver Herford

“Politics is the chloroform of the Irish people, or rather the hashish.”
– Oliver St. John

“If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.”
– Oscar Wilde

“My wife and I both come from Irish families. There are two kinds of Irish families: the hitting kind and the kidding kind. If you’re fortunate – and both of us are – you come from the kidding kind of Irish family.”
– P. J. O’Rourke

“I come from an alcoholic Irish background – I know where I was going! But I met my wife and started to practise Buddhism, which is a levelling experience for me, and there hasn’t been a day I’ve missed in 40 years. I apply it to everything – to my work and relationships. I try to be a compassionate person.”
– Patrick Duffy

“I don’t hate redheads! The millionaire men – wealthy men – never pick them. Every time I offer them they say no. I could say the most gorgeous redhead in the world and they’ll say no, they don’t want it. Now if you ask an Irish guy in Ireland, he says ‘yes,’ because that’s indigenous to that country.”
– Patti Stanger

“There are probably more annoying things than being hectored about African development by a wealthy Irish rock star in a cowboy hat, but I can’t think of one at the moment.”
– Paul Theroux

“Me and Johnny Rotten have been talking about doing a movie of his book, No Irish, No Dogs, No Blacks. We have a script, so hopefully that’s going to happen at some point in our careers.”
– Penelope Spheeris

“Irish women are always carrying water on their heads, and always carrying their husbands home from pubs. Such things are the greatest posture-builders in the world.”
– Peter O’Toole

“In 1953 there were two ways for an Irish Catholic boy to impress his parents: become a priest or attend Notre Dame.”
– Phil Donahue

“I had to have some balls to be Irish Catholic in South London. Most of that time I spent fighting.”
– Pierce Brosnan

“I’m lucky because I have so many clashing cultural, racial things going on: black, Jewish, Irish, Portuguese, Cherokee. I can float and be part of any community I want.”
– Rashida Jones

“I loved Jack Ford. I got him in his later days, and he was a total tyrant and a total autocrat and an Irish drunk. But I had a great time.”
– Richard Widmark

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