Top 82 Irishman Quotes
#1. A transplanted Irishman, German, Englishman is an American in one generation. A transplanted African is not one in five!
Barbara Chase-Riboud
#2. To be a young Irishman in London and go to the theater to see 'Rosemary's Baby' ... it scared the crap out of me.
Pierce Brosnan
#3. I went to the meeting with some trepidation for, although I might have met a wizard before, I had never encountered an Irishman.
Iain Pears
#4. An Irishman can be worried by the consciousness that there is nothing to worry about.
Austin O'Malley
#5. If you ask an Irishman for directions, he might be quick to answer, Well if I were going there, I would not start here.
Steve Stockman
#6. Ideally, we'd want an Irishman coming in for the job, but, ideally it doesn't really matter.
Clinton Morrison
#7. The Irishman in English literature may be said to have been born with an apology in his mouth.
James Connolly
#8. Show me an Irishman who can't tell a story - I don't think they exist.
Patricia Polacco
#9. One of the first symptoms of time-lag is a tendency to maudlin sentimentality, like an Irishman in his cups or a Victorian poet cold-sober.
Connie Willis
#10. A real Irishman will give everything of himself
except that kernel of his soul which makes him a mystery to other peoples.
Jim Tully
#11. I am an unusual Irishman. I'm probably Ireland's third most famous Jewish son.
Lenny Abrahamson
#12. I'm still a proud Irishman, of course, but I've become an American citizen. I'm very, very proud of that.
Liam Neeson
#13. On golfer Rory McIlroy's collapse in the final round of the 2011 Masters: We had hoped to compare the young Northern Irishman to the great Masters champions but instead had to reach for the compendium of great golfing train wrecks.
Matt Dickinson
#14. I'm first and foremost an Irishman, by birth, by nature, by soul, but an American citizen through and through as well.
Pierce Brosnan
#15. Now here I am playing a passionate young Irishman who would die for what he believes in.
James D'arcy
#16. I am of one mind with the Irishman who said you could get used to anything, even to being hanged!
L.M. Montgomery
#17. Put an Irishman on the spit and you can always get another Irishman to turn him.
George Bernard Shaw
#18. The only census of the senses, so far as I am aware, that ever before made them more than five, was the Irishman's reckoning of seven senses. I presume the Irishman's seventh sense was common sense; and I believe that the possession of that virtue by my countrymen-I speak as an Irishman.
Lord Kelvin
#19. There's people that when they see Samuel Hamilton the first time might get the idea he's full of bull. He don't talk like other people. He's an Irishman. And he's all full of plans - a hundred plans a day. And he's all full of hope.
John Steinbeck
#20. Keep dreaming, Irish," she said dryly, though her breath was ragged.
"I will, but it remains to be seen whether they'll come true." The man was all confidence and skilled seduction.
Kate smirked. "Only an Irishman would say that."
"Only a beautiful, stubborn lass would ignore the truth.
Whitney K.E.
#23. I am one who fights without a knack of hoping confidentlysimply a Scotch-Irishman who will not be conquered.
Woodrow Wilson
#24. An Englishmen thinks seated; a Frenchmen standing; an American pacing, an Irishman, afterwards.
Austin O'Malley
#25. I swim in a pool of my own neurosis. I carry love, grief deeply, like an Irishman.
Richard Harris
#26. Pain seems to be easier, or melancholy seems to be easier to portray in a character. I don't know if that's because I'm a human being or because I'm an Irishman or both.
Colin Farrell
#27. You are a different kind of Irishman, Goll," was all she said.
"Every Irishman is a different kind of Irishman," said Goll.
Charles Brady
#28. To Whom It May Concern. A racist Irishman has just made me aware that I am as bigoted as he is. Please excuse me from working with people of different skin colours until I can achieve an attitude adjustment. I do not wish to be a Nazi.
Lynn Viehl
#29. A proper Irishman always does what a lady asks him. Sure an' it's been the ruin av us. We're at the mercy av the petticoats.
L.M. Montgomery
#30. How white is an Irishman's ass?" Eve wondered out loud.
"You should know, darling.
J.D. Robb
#31. A body can get used to anything, even to being hanged, as the Irishman said.
L.M. Montgomery
#32. I was born in the island of Ireland. I have Irish traits in me - we don't all have the traits of what came from Scotland, there is the celtic factor ... and I am an Irishman because you cannot be an Ulsterman without being an Irishman
Ian Paisley
#33. An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.
James Joyce
#34. It is somewhat remarkable that Cornwall has produced no musical genius of any note, and yet the Cornishman is akin to the Welshman and the Irishman.
Sabine Baring-Gould
#35. As a member of the Protestant British squirearchy ruling Ireland, he was touchy about his Irish origins. When in later life an enthusiastic Gael commended him as a famous Irishman, he replied A man can be born in a stable, and yet not be an animal.
Duke Of Wellington
#36. It used to be the case that for an Irishman to come to the U.S. involved a perilous journey on a ship. It involved singing lots of songs before you left saying goodbye, and once you were in the U.S., it involved singing lots of songs about how you were never going to set foot in Ireland again.
Joseph O'Neill
#37. Give an Irishman lager for a month and he's a dead man. An Irishman's stomach is lined with copper, and the beer corrodes it. But whiskey polishes the copper and is the saving of him.
Mark Twain
#38. Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
Shane Leslie
#39. An Irishman's imagination never lets him alone, never convinces him, never satisfies him; but it makes him that he can't face reality nor deal with it nor handle it nor conquer it: he can only sneer at them that do, and be 'agreeable to strangers', like a good-for-nothing woman on the streets.
George Bernard Shaw
#40. The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner.
W.B.Yeats
#41. Every Irishman, the saying goes, has a potato in his head.
Augustus Hare
#43. You may have noticed there are three things an Irishman always puts his soul in: his religion, his sports, and his politics. If you ever find an Irishman who is wishy-washy on any one of those, you can make up your mind to it he is not the true article at all.
Mary Deasy
#44. I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#46. An Irishman will always soften bad news, so that a major coronary is no more than 'a bad turn' and a near hurricane that leaves thousands homeless is 'good drying weather'.
Hugh Leonard
#47. Who better than an Irishman can understand the Indians, while still being stirred by tales of the US cavalry?
John Ford
#48. No genuine Irishman could relax in comfort and feel at home in a pub unless he was sitting in deep gloom on a hard seat with a very sad expression on his face, listening to the drone of bluebottle squadrons carrying out a raid on the yellow cheese sandwich.
Flann O'Brien
#49. I've had the privilege of working with Bono for the past few years in the One Campaign to fight AIDS and hunger and disease around the world. Bono is an Irishman and a great humanitarian. And I remember him telling me of his admiration for America.
Mike Huckabee
#50. disgraceful, indelible blot on the conscience of England and it would remain there forever. No true Irishman would ever forgive them for that, but the Titanic story
Michael Grant
#51. When I met Jimmy Burke in 1964, he practically owned New York's Kennedy Airport. If you ask me, they named the place after the wrong Irishman.
Henry Hill
#52. As you know, I am neither Roman Catholic, Protestant Episcopalian, nor Presbyterian, nor am I an Irishman.
John Bright
#53. You ran away from an adorable Irishman who wanted to se you naked?
Christine Warren
#54. An Irishman's wife gave birth to twins. Her husband wanted to know who the other man was.
Frank Carson
#56. Educate the Russian or the American or the Englishman or the Irishman or Frenchman or any real northern European except German, and you get the Anarchist, that is to say the man who dreams of order without organisation - of something beyond organisation ...
H.G.Wells
#57. I thought I was God's gift to mankind and the greatest Irishman since George Best.
James Nesbitt
#58. I was walking across King's Cross station when a drunken Irishman came stumbling up and flung his arms around me. He wanted to thank me for the peace process in Northern Ireland.
Ann Widdecombe
#59. Mulligan: invented by an Irishman who wanted to hit one more twenty yard grounder.
Jim Bishop
#61. Can it be possible that the painters make John the Baptist a Spaniard in Madrid and an Irishman in Dublin?
Mark Twain
#62. Put an Englishman into the garden of Eden, and he would find fault with the whole blasted concern; put a Yankee in, and he would see where he could alter it to advantage; put an Irishman in, and he would want to boss the thing; put a Dutchman in, and he would proceed to plant it.
Josh Billings
#63. In Memoriam, Louis Anglesey, Earl of Upnor, finest swordsman in England, beaten to death with a stick by an Irishman.
Neal Stephenson
#64. After high school, I went to Stanford University and majored in English. Of course, that gave me a chance to do lots more reading and writing. I also received degrees in London and Dublin - where I moved to be near a charming Irishman who became my husband!
Linda Sue Park
#65. As a consequence [of a closed economic circle], in 1912 there was not a single Irishman who sat on a single board of a major Boston bank.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
#66. Alas! the culture of an Irishman is an enterprise to be undertaken with a sort of moral bog hoe.
Henry David Thoreau
#67. For when Philippe, with his snapping eyes and his wild ways, left Savannah forever, he took with him the glow that was in Ellen's heart and left for the bandy-legged little Irishman who married her only a gentle shell.
Margaret Mitchell
#68. Lost: Heartbeat. Last seen being chased away by an Irishman's shameless grin. Reward if returned.
Whitney K.E.
#69. Have you heard about the Irishman who reversed into a car boot sale and sold the engine?
Frank Carson
#70. This would be a grand land if only every Irishman would kill a negro, and be hanged for it.
Edward Augustus Freeman
#71. Samuel Beckett was saying, in a new biography, that he could remember being in the womb, which, of course, is a bit far-fetched. But he's an Irishman, so nothing's too far-fetched.
Frank McCourt
#72. I was born in 1951 in Kalgoorlie, a prosperous mining town 370 miles east of Perth, Western Australia. Kalgoorlie was a gold rush town which sprang up in the desert after the Irishman Paddy Hannan struck gold there in 1892.
Barry Marshall
#73. Do you know that an Irishman always respond to a question with another?"
And the Irish guy replies "Who told you that?
Cathy Kelly
#74. He knew the world and its absurdities as only an intelligent Irishman can; which is to say that where his knowledge or memory failed him, his imagination was always ready to fill the gap.
John Fowles
#75. Look at me, man, look at me and tell me I don't know what I'm about. I'm Conor Larkin. I'm an Irishman and I've had enough.
Leon Uris
#76. I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me just the right thing for a poet. Passion! He was always on the right side. He may be wrongheaded, but his heart was always on the right side. He wrote beautiful poetry.
Chinua Achebe
#77. An Irishman I am, begora! With a heart and a spirit on
me not crushed be a hundred years of oppression. I'll be getting me
shillelagh out next, wait'll you see.
Martin McDonagh
#78. The doctors are all agreed that I am suffering from want of society. Was never a case like it. First, I did not know that I was suffering at all. Secondly, as an Irishman might say, I had thought it was indigestion of the society I got.
Henry David Thoreau
#79. An Englishman, an Irishman and a Scotsman walk into a bar. The barman looks at them and says: "Is this some kind of a joke?"
Frank Carson
#81. They have nothing in their whole imperial arsenal that can break the spirit of one Irishman who doesn't want to be broken.
Bobby Sands
#82. I would never repudiate the fact that I am an Irishman
Ian Paisley
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