Irish Quotes

Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behin...

Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. ...

The sea, the snotgreen sea, the scrotumtightening sea.

... I've a thirst on me I wouldn't sell for half a crown.- Give it a name, citizen, says Joe.- Wine ...

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

My people - before I was changed - they exchanged this as a sign of devotion. It's a Claddagh ring. ...

If Canada had a soul (a doubtful proposition, Moses thought) then it wasn't to be found in Batoche o...

I just wasn't cut out to be a Chinese Tiger Mom. I'm more of an Irish Setter Dad.

Americans may say they love our accents (I have been accused of sounding 'like Princess Di') but the...

Her smile increased. She had perfect white regular teeth; Irish, Juliana decided. Only Irish blood c...

The earth makes a sound as of sighs and the last drops fall from the emptied cloudless sky. A small ...

All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beg...

More than loud acclaim, I loveBooks, silence, thought, my alcove.Pangur BánPoem by Anon Irish Monk, ...

Author? Author? Did you write these legs?''Yes."'Well, I don't like dem. I don't like 'em at all at ...

Many people die of thirst but the Irish are born with one.

We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.

He had been thinking of how landscape moulds a language. It was impossible to imagine these hills gi...

If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks.

Being Irish is very much a part of who I am. I take it everywhere with me.

To be Irish is to know that in the end the world will break your heart.

When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen,...

The Irish Republican Army has kept every commitment made by its leadership.

The gun is not out of Irish politics.

I think being a woman is like being Irish... Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take s...