Irish Quotes And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

“Damn right it is. Do you have any idea how long it’s been since I’ve seen you naked? he said, raising an eyebrow in challenge. How the hell am I supposed to get better under these horrific conditions? I may end up in therapy yet. See, look, my eye’s already starting to twitch… ”
– Shannon MacLeod, The Celtic Knot

“A driver had been sent to meet us. He was gray-haired, short, and nimble and introduced himself. I am Patrick and so is every fourth man in Ireland, and the ones in between are named Sean or Mick or Finn, and I’ll be driving you.”
– Sharon Creech, The Great Unexpected

“This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever.”
– Sigmund Freud

“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.

“There’s no sense to being Irish unless you know the world’s going to break your heart.”
– Thomas Adcock

“And that is how the Irish saved civilization.”
– Thomas Cahill

“The phrase the violent bear it away fascinated the 20th century Irish-American storyteller Flannery O’Connor, who used it as the title of one of her novels. O’Connor’s surname connects her to an Irish royal family descended from Conchobor (pronounced Connor), the prehistoric king of Ulster who was foster father to Cuchulainn and husband of the unwilling Derdriu. In the western world, the antiquity of Irish lineages is exceeded only by that of the Jews.”
– Thomas Cahill

“A best friend is like a four leaf clover: hard to find and lucky to have.”
– Unknown

“A life making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing at all.”
– Unknown

“A wish that every day for you will be happy from the start and may you always have good luck and a song within your heart.”
– Unknown

“Drink is the curse of the land. It makes you fight with your neighbor. It makes you shoot at your landlord and it makes you miss him!”
– Unknown

“In heaven there is no beer… That’s why we drink ours here!”
– Unknown

“We are ready to die and shall die cheerfully and proudly, you must not grieve for all of this.”
– Unknown

“You’ve got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was!”
– Unknown

“[Waiting for Godot] has achieved a theoretical impossibility—a play in which nothing happens, that yet keeps audiences glued to their seats. What’s more, since the second act is a subtly different reprise of the first, he has written a play in which nothing happens, twice.”
– Vivian Mercier

“The problem with some people is that when they aren’t drunk, they’re sober.”
– W. B. Yeats

“At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.”
– W. Somerset Maugham

“The Celt, and his cromlechs, and his pillar-stones, these will not change much – indeed, it is doubtful if anybody at all changes at any time. In spite of hosts of deniers, and asserters, and wise-men, and professors, the majority still are adverse to sitting down to dine thirteen at a table, or being helped to salt, or walking under a ladder, of seeing a single magpie flirting his chequered tale. There are, of course, children of light who have set their faces against all this, although even a newspaperman, if you entice him into a cemetery at midnight, will believe in phantoms, for everyone is a visionary, if you scratch him deep enough. But the Celt, unlike any other, is a visionary without scratching.”
– W.B. Yeats

“Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.”
– W.B. Yeats

“Education is not filling”
– William Butler Yeats

“The intellect is forced to choose: Perfection of the life, or of the work.”
– William Butler Yeats

“The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.”
– William Butler Yeats

“There are no strangers here, only friends that have not yet met.”
– William Butler Yeats

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