Brogue Quotes

#1. Uh, yeah. Hello? Are you the contest winner?"
His Irish brogue is thick, punctuated by irritation. I pull my proverbial shit together and nod. "Yeah."
"About bloody time. Did you stop to sign autographs?

Tessa Bailey

#2. His shoes were bench-made by a company called Cheaney, from Northampton in England. Smarter buys than Church's, which were basically the same shoes but with a premium tag for the name. The style Reacher had chosen was called Tenterden, which was a brown semi-brogue made of heavy pebbled leather.

Lee Child

#3. the brogue tripping from his tongue like a slashed wineskin.

Mary Brown

#4. The grand point is not to wear the garb, nor use the brogue of religion, but to process the life of God within, and feel and think as Jesus would have done because of that inner life. Small is the value of extended religion, unless it is the outcome of a life within.

C.S. Lewis

#5. Caitriona Balfe, who is Irish, is also in my movie. I asked her to play her Irish accent in the movie, but her own brogue is so faint that I had to keep pumping it up.

Jodie Foster

#6. I was thinking in a Scottish brogue, because I'd just heard this guy interviewed on NPR, Lonnie McSomething.

Patricia Gaffney

#7. Occasionally I like a really good pair of shoes. A pair of leather shoes from Gieves & Hawkes in England, Buckshot Brogue, they look really sick.

Ian Astbury

#8. He said he doesn' have it. Pick on someone your own size." You could really hear the Irish in Kiernan's voice back then. I mean, you can still hear it, but it's more of a lilt when he's older. Back then, it was a full-on brogue.

Rysa Walker

#9. People do think I'm Jewish. But we're Irish Catholic. My father had a brogue.

Martin Short

#10. My late unlamented father taught me one valuable lesson. 'Boy', he would say to me in the thick brogue of a champion drunk, 'the only way to fight is to fight dirty. The only place to hit is below the belt.

J.D. Robb

#11. What we call the Irish Brogue is no sooner discovered, than it makes the deliverer, in the last degree, ridiculous and despised; and, from such a mouth, an Englishman expects nothing but bulls, blunders, and follies.

Jonathan Swift

#12. The Gay News critic wrote that I 'carried the lilt of the Irish without the brogue'.

Stephen Fry

#13. "A minority of one" ... the definition of insanity.

George Orwell

#14. There is no state with a democracy except Libya on the whole planet.

Muammar Al-Gaddafi

#15. I luv the ded, this old baster sez to me when I wiz tryin to get some innfurmashin out ov him. You fukin old pervirt I sez, gettin a bit fed up by this time enyway, an slit his throate; ah asks you whare the fukin Sleeping Byootie woz, no whit kind of humpin you lyke.

Iain Banks

#16. While it would be as wrong of me to attribute these traits to women at the exclusion of men as it would be for a man to do the reverse, I think women can often be very strong team players and good communicators and collaborators.

Diane Nelson

#17. I've always thought I had pretty good instincts for people. There is a short list of people I've worked with over my career with whom I've not been able to distinguish easily between the public persona and the real private person.

Randall Robinson

#18. Too bad that youth is wasted on the young.

Mark Twain

#19. Being productive. Ugh. It's such a human concept. It implies you have limited time (LOL) and have to work hard to make something happen (double LOL).

Rick Riordan

#20. They arrested us after breakfast.

Ernest Hemingway,

#21. Women who go into the harem do not come out. It is a permanent position." [...]
"I am not going in as a woman. I am going in as an assassin. So we have nothing to fear.

Kiersten White

#22. Come with me and take back your lives!

Eric Mrozek

#23. Perhaps I'm not made of glass after all. Perhaps I'm made of something stronger.

Maggie Harcourt