Irish Quotes And Sayings

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“Sure and you’ve got to keep your own spitis up, for there’s no one else will do that for you!”
– Jaclyn Moriarty, The Ghosts of Ashbury High

“The Irish are a very fair people, they never speak well of one another.”
– James Boswell

“Your battles inspired me – not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.”
– James Joyce

“Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.”
– James Joyce

“You get a decent do at the Brazen Head”
– James Joyce

“The sea, the snotgreen sea, the scrotumtightening sea.”
– James Joyce, Ulysses

“If my last name were Bedient, I’d want to Irishize it and have you call me O’Bedient. Of course, just because you call me, doesn’t mean I’ll come.”
– Jarod Kintz, $

“For you can’t hear Irish tunes without knowing you’re Irish, and wanting to pound that fact into the floor.”
– Jennifer Armstrong, Becoming Mary Mehan

“Skip your fancy talk, Captain Lord Blackthorn. If I do your bidding, and I’m still discussing that with the Almighty, it will only be to save my arse. Katie O’Reilly to Captain Lord Jack Blackthorn in Titanic Rhapsody”
– Jina Bacarr

“If it’s only a kiss you want, I can kiss you with my clothes on. Katie O’Reilly to Captain Lord Blackthorn in Titanic Rhasody.”
– Jina Bacarr

“I was born Katie O’Reilly, she began. Poor Irish, but proud of it. I boarded the Titanic at Queenstown as a third class passenger with nothing more than the clothes on my back. And the law at my heels. Titanic Rhapsody”
– Jina Bacarr

“They can go out now, dressed up, with their handbags and have a drink and play bingo. And they deserve it.”
– John B. Keane

“. . . I still hold two truths with equal and fundamental certainty. One: the British did terrible things to the Irish. Two: the Irish, had they the power, would have done equally terrible things to the British. And so also for any other paired adversaries I can imagine. The difficulty is to hold on to both truths with equal intensity, not let either one negate the other, and know when to emphasize one without forgetting the other. Our humanity is probably lost and gained in the necessary tension between them both. I hope, by the way, that I do not sound anti-British. It is impossible not to admire a people who gave up India and held on to Northern Ireland. That shows a truly Celtic sense of humor.”
– John Dominic Crossan

“A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces but also by the men it honors, the men it remembers.”
– John F. Kennedy

“One of the very best rules of conversation is to never say anything which any of the company wish had been left unsaid.”
– Jonathan Swift

“For the record, Irish, he informed her tightly, just in case she got the wrong idea, I kneel to no one.”
– Karen Marie Moning, The Immortal Highlander

“There is an Irish way of paying compliments as though they were irresistible truths which makes what would otherwise be an impertinence delightful.”
– Katherine Tynan Hinkson

“That’s right, there’s free beer in Irish paradise. Everyone’s jealous.”
– Kevin Hearne, Hammered

“Attaboy, the widow chuckled. Off y’go, then. Kill every last one o’ the bastards and call me in the mornin’.”
– Kevin Hearne, Hounded

“Though the pen is mightier than the sword, the sword speaks louder and stronger at any given moment.”
– Leonard Wibberley

“If there were only three Irishmen in the world you’d find two of them in a corner talking about the other.”
– María Brandán Aráoz

“I’m troubled, I’m dissatisfied. I’m Irish!”
– Marianne Moore

“May the wind always be at your back.”
– May the sun shine warm upon your face,

“May the road rise up to meet you.”
– May the wind always be at your back.

“Let justice be done tho the heavens fall.”
– Michael Davitt

“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
– Oliver Goldsmith

“Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.”
– Oliver Goldsmith

“Some men never recover from education.”
– Oliver St. John Gogarty, It Isn’t This Time of Year at All: An Unpremeditated Autobiography

“I can resist everything but temptation.”
– Oscar Wilde

“I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.”
– Oscar Wilde

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