Collection of the Best Irish Quotes
If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.
Oscar Wilde
We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.
Winston Churchill
The Irish are a fair people - they never speak well of one another.
Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
God invented whiskey to keep the Irish from ruling the world.
Ed McMahon
I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
May all who love the Lord, love you and those who don't love you, may the Lord give them a limp so you can see them coming.
Irish Blessing
Only Irish Coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar, fat.
-Alex Levine
I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have the party, but no one expects you to say very much."
-- Anthony Lake, national security advisor, at University of Massachusettes, Amhurst, Graduation 1995
Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
Shane Leslie
May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in the palm of his hand.
Irish Blessing
When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, "Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?"
Quentin Crisp
Oscar Wilde
We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.
Winston Churchill
The Irish are a fair people - they never speak well of one another.
Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
God invented whiskey to keep the Irish from ruling the world.
Ed McMahon
I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
May all who love the Lord, love you and those who don't love you, may the Lord give them a limp so you can see them coming.
Irish Blessing
Only Irish Coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar, fat.
-Alex Levine
I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have the party, but no one expects you to say very much."
-- Anthony Lake, national security advisor, at University of Massachusettes, Amhurst, Graduation 1995
Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
Shane Leslie
May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in the palm of his hand.
Irish Blessing
When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, "Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?"
Quentin Crisp
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