Good Irish Quotes

#1. It was like the violence of the world he'd grown up in had embedded itself in him, taken root, and could never be fully excised.
He'd never been able to escape death. Apparently, he was a good Irish Catholic after all

S.E. Jakes

#2. Now tell me, Sawyer O'Donnell, are you more Irish or Hispanic?"
"Half and half. Love the Mexican food but also love a good Irish whiskey on occasion. They're both really good lovers, you know. Hot-blooded and stand by their women.

Carolyn Brown

#3. We do know for sure that good Irish Catholics followed their faith in the direction of inclusion, compassion, equality, justice, and a host of other Catholic values when they voted with the majority despite some clergymen's efforts to lead them astray.

Mary E. Hunt

#4. My grandparents never understood why my mother Noreen chose such exotic names for her children: Damon and me. My granny insisted on calling my brother Dermot - a good Irish name - until she died; I was just known as 'wee one.'

Natascha McElhone

#5. I won the parental lottery. Most of the kids I grew up with either came from really fractured homes, or really violent ones. I went home to a very traditional, good Irish Catholic family.

Dennis Lehane

#6. I wasn't close to my father, but I wanted to be all my life. He had a funny sense of humor, and he laughed all the time - good and loud, like I do. He was a gay Irish gentleman and very good-looking. And he wanted to be close to me, too, but we never had much time together.

Judy Garland

#7. For the multiculturalist, white Anglo-Saxon Protestants are prohibited, Italians and Irish get a little respect, blacks are good, native Americans are even better. The further away we go, the more they deserve respect. This is a kind of inverted, patronising respect that puts everyone at a distance.

Slavoj Zizek

#8. The Irish 'n Polacks always get along- didn't ya ever notice? Irish 'n Polacks live on p'tatoes 'n got it in for Hitler, that's why they get along so good; all over the world. Never heard of no war between Poland 'n Ireland, did you? No sir, that's cause we're all Cath'lics.

Nelson Algren

#9. I like Guinness, and that will make anyone Irish. That and soda bread, and I'm good to go.

Peter Riegert

#10. The purpose of the University of Washington cannot be to produce black lawyers for blacks, Polish lawyers for Poles, Jewish lawyers for Jews, Irish lawyers for Irish. It should be to produce good lawyers for Americans and not to place First Amendment barriers against anyone.

William O. Douglas

#11. Irish rock star Bono has said, Grace defies reason and logic. Love interrupts, if you like, the consequences of your actions, which in my case is very good news indeed, because I've done a lot of stupid stuff.

Shane Claiborne

#12. The Irish ... are full of the fear of the Lord and the joy of living, and they don't know how to combine the two, but they'll sure have a good time trying.

Mercedes McCambridge

#13. The Irish are hearty, the Scotch plausible, the French polite, the Germans good-natured, the Italians courtly, the Spaniards reserved and decorous - the English alone seem to exist in taking and giving offense.

William Hazlitt

#14. I suffer from Irish-Catholic guilt. Guilt is a good reality check. It keeps that 'do what makes you happy' thing in check.

Edward Burns

#15. I love the Irish for their attachment to the faith and for many amiable and noble qualities, but they are deficient in good sense, sound judgement, and manly character.

Orestes Brownson

#16. I Have Fought the Good Fight and Won

Carmen J. Viglucci

#17. In a study, scientists report that drinking beer can be good for the liver. I'm sorry, did I say 'scientists'? I meant Irish people.

Tina Fey

#18. I'm not sure if a grinning Irish guy who is speechless for 45 seconds is going to make good TV.

Brian F. O'Byrne

#19. My father was totally Irish, and so I went to Ireland once. I found it to be very much like New York, for it was a beautiful country, and both the women and men were good-looking.

James Cagney

#20. I went to a very militantly Republican grammar school and, under its influence, began to revolt against the Establishment, on thesimple rule of thumb, highly satisfying to a ten-year-old, that Irish equals good, English equals bad.

Bernadette Devlin

#21. Malone had been raised by a lady both Irish and Catholic, in a good bourgeois home in which careless table manners were a sin, much less this storm in his heart.

Andrew Holleran

#22. The greatest problem with Irish Wolfhounds, though, is that they don't live very long: their great hearts give out. A good deal of this is genetic, of course, but I think it is in part that they worry so for us, care so much.

Edward Albee

#23. The old Irish when immersing a babe at baptism left out the right arm so that it would remain pagan for good fighting

Mark Twain

#24. Ninety percent I'll spend on good times, women and Irish Whiskey. The other ten percent I'll probably waste.

Tug McGraw

#25. My old manager of the Irish National Theatre said 'Don't worry about being a star, just worry about being a working actor. Just keep working.' I think that's really good advice.

Colm Meaney

#26. I've been told I have an Irish temper, I know I have Scottish thrift, and, like the English, I love a good show.

Jeanette MacDonald

#27. What can I say? I'm Irish, I love a good potato.

Sophia Tallon

#28. All good things originate with the Creator God, he'd been taught, and the Song of Life was no exception.

Sandi Layne

#29. Have a good laugh at this, ... Deep down, I never for a second never thought they would find anything.

Tana French

#30. I have good genes. My father is Danish and my mother is Irish and Native American. They both have good skin.

Virginia Madsen

#31. It's simply this:
the Irish kiss,
a snog o' bliss,
be blessed luck
from any miss.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#32. I seriously believe that you will retard the course of civilisation in Ireland by preventing the Irish people from having one good look at themselves in my nicely polished looking glass.

James Joyce