Top 100 Old Dublin Quotes
#1. It's still possible to find pockets of old Dublin - but its becoming more and more rarified.
Anjelica Huston
#2. I am at home in Dublin, more than in any other city.
Louis MacNeice
#3. I don't think I've actually drunk a beer for 15 years, except a few Guinnesses in Dublin, where it's the law.
Ian Botham
#4. When's the last time you walked by a pub in Dublin and heard Irish music? When's the last time you ordered a coffee and heard an Irish accent?
Michael Flatley
#5. I'm crazy about Dublin. If you went back 3,000 years in my ancestry you wouldn't find a drop of Irish blood in the veins, but I love the place.
Harold Prince
#6. When I went to the all-Ireland final - Kerry against Dublin - I couldn't get away for an hour and a half with people coming up and wishing me all the best. Not one of them said, 'Martin, when did you leave the IRA?' But every one of them knew I was in the IRA at one stage.
Martin McGuinness
#7. Lots of people think that love is giving flowers or chocolates, or taking walks in the moonlight, but for me that's all just decoration. Love is much more profound and true than that; it's being able to really take care of the other person.
Amanda Laneley
#8. We've done shows - we'll be in Dublin, and it will be nonstop pandemonium to the point where you think the crowd is going to implode, because they're making so much noise and they're so excited.
Lupe Fiasco
#9. I gulped inwardly. Outwardly, I tilted my head to the side with a wry grin. "You're good with the words, I'll give you that."
"I'm good with my hands. Will you let me give you that?"
Young, Samantha (2012-10-12). On Dublin Street (Kindle Locations 1917-1919). Penguin Group US. Kindle Edition.
Samantha Young
#10. Wanderers, Dublin's oldest rugby club, has been described more than once as the club of the Church and the Army: the wags added
" ... unfortunately the wrong Church and the wrong Army."
Gemma Hussey
#11. He's what, in my alley days in Dublin, we would have called a fug - cross between a fuck and a pug. Lots of mouth and no balls.
J.D. Robb
#12. Dublin housing prices are a lot like New York ones, except that in New York, you get New York for your money.
Tana French
#13. What's fascinating is where they come from in the world. People in Bangladesh, a chap in a fire-base in Tikrit in Iraq. Chap in an Irish pub in Dublin. And lovely to think this literary network - or rather network of readers - is well spread out.
John Gimlette
#14. Not just the normal back-and-forth. A prickle in the air, a slicing edge. I couldn't tell if it was about her, or just the day that was it, or if it was the squad. Murder is different. The beat goes faster and harder; the tightrope is higher and narrower. One foot wrong, and you're gone.
Tana French
#15. The White House was designed by Hoban, a noted Irish-American architect, and I have no doubt that he believed by incorporating several features of the Dublin style he would make it more homelike for any President of Irish descent. It was a long wait, but I appreciate his efforts.
John F. Kennedy
#16. There was no doubt about it: if you wanted to succeed you had to go away. You could do nothing in Dublin.
James Joyce
#17. When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.
J.P. Donleavy
#18. Welcome to the O2. A unique building in Dublin, in that it is actually finished.
Bill Bailey
#19. There are more balls in twenty feet of street here then there are in all of Dublin, and I'm proud to be swaying in the nut sack.
Karen Marie Moning
#20. When I die Dublin will be written in my heart.
James Joyce
#21. It's a big con job. We have sold the myth of Dublin as a sexy place incredibly well; because it is a dreary little dump most of the time.
Roddy Doyle
#22. It is always reassuring to discover that great writers are as fallible as oneself. W.B. Yeats once failed to obtain an academic post in Dublin because he misspelt the word 'professor' on his application.
Terry Eagleton
#23. I've played Beckett. I put on in the 1950s the first Australian production of 'Waiting for Godot.' I played Estragon. The most interesting conversation I've had about Beckett was with a Dublin taxi driver.
Barry Humphries
#24. I go off into Dublin and two days later I'm spotted walking by the Liffey with a whole bunch of new friends.
Ron Wood
#25. By the general love of scandal and detraction in Dublin, one might reasonably imagine they were all to feed themselves through the holes which they had made in the characters of others.
Laetitia Pilkington
#26. England was never my home. I had a home there but Dublin is my home so leaving Ireland was the hardest thing I had to do.
Kevin Kilbane
#27. I live in Ireland every day in a drizzly dream of a Dublin walk ...
John Geddes
#28. For a startling period of my life, I reported the Troubles in Ireland for the BBC. I lived in Dublin and was called out to all sorts of incidents that, if taken together, add up to a war - bombings, assassinations, riots, shootings, robberies, jailbreaks, kidnappings, and sieges.
Frank Delaney
#29. 250,000 people turned up in Dublin to cheer me on an open-topped bus along O'Connell St after my world title winning fight in 1985. I'll never forget the sea of smiling faces that greeted me that day.
Barry McGuigan
#30. I loved the energy of Dublin and the fact that it's so close to the sea, with beauty spots such as Howth so close to hand.
Honeysuckle Weeks
#31. I'm pleased to say I grew up in a happy family in Dublin. I feel we're very close.
Domhnall Gleeson
#32. When you found someone you really loved, everything fitted.
Melissa Hill
#33. I live in Dublin, God knows why. There are greatly more congenial places I could have settled in - Italy, France, Manhattan - but I like the climate here, and Irish light seems to be essential for me and for my writing.
John Banville
#34. You just never know what hurts people are living with, do you? Were all so good at hiding them.
Samantha Young
#36. I've lived in other cities - Rome, Dublin, Mexico City - but I was born in New York City, and I always lived in those other places as a New Yorker.
Pete Hamill
#37. The Good Friday Agreement and the basic rights and entitlements of citizens that are enshrined within it must be defended and actively promoted by London and Dublin.
Gerry Adams
#38. When the Dublin-born Beckett was asked by a Parisian journalist whether he was English, he replied, 'On the contrary.
Terry Eagleton
#39. I've only been to Dublin once, and I had a great time. I got completely soaked because it was rainy.
Jodie Foster
#40. BORN: 1856 George Bernard Shaw (Man and Superman, Major Barbara), Dublin 1894 Aldous Huxley (Brave New World, Crome Yellow), Godalming, England DIED: 1934 Winsor McCay
Tom Nissley
#41. The dark fever I'd caught that first night I'd set foot in Dublin had turned into a fever of a different kind: a bloodfever - as in I wanted blood, spilled for my sister.
Karen Marie Moning
#42. It's the song of a man trying to forget a woman, but then he realizes it's impossible, that not being with her is harmful and he dies of despair, not knowing whether she still wants to be with him.
Amanda Laneley
#43. Good puzzle would be cross Dublin without passing a pub.
James Joyce
#44. I was born and raised in Dublin, Ireland and it is still home to me. My writing has taken me all over the world, but this is the place I come back to and the place where I find it easiest to write.
Michael Scott
#45. when you find that special person, you want to be the best version of yourself. You want to demonstrate that you're willing to change and to overcome your fears.
Amanda Laneley
#46. My mother's father was from Sligo, and he used to say it was the hardest thing in the world to find a man alive in Dublin who wasn't in the GPO during the Easter Rising. Twenty brave men marched into that post office, he said, and thirty thousand marched out.
Lawrence Block
#47. Okay, so I want to talk about it. Dammit, how can you be so good at the whole keeping things to yourself thing? It's really hard.
Samantha Young
#48. Cadiz is a city of magic, like Cracow or Dublin, to set the mind on fire at a turn of a corner ... The eye is continually fed, the imagination stirred, by a train of spectacles as charming as if they had been contrived.
Honor Tracy
#49. I have told the reader that Tim Gamelyn's father was a retired non-commissioned officer who lived near Dublin on a small private income and a pension.
Forbes Alexander Phillips
#50. Oh so i was right last night then. Unlike me, she has your love.
Samantha Young
#51. 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
#52. I don't think America has ever had a center the way London is the center of England or Dublin is the center of Ireland.
Richard Russo
#53. When I was 18, I left Dublin and moved to Paris. I didn't speak French. I didn't know anyone. I felt like a fish out of water.
Caitriona Balfe
#54. Before we kill Schengen, we have to make Dublin work.
Mark Rutte
#55. You've just provided me with the makings of one hell of a weekend in Dublin.
Daniel Day-Lewis
#56. Then Mount Jerome for the protestants. Funerals all over the world everywhere every minute.
Shovelling them under by the cartload doublequick.
Thousands every hour. Too many in the world.
James Joyce
#57. Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as it was yesterday when you and I laid wreaths at the Garden of Remembrance.
Queen Elizabeth II
#58. Former Dublin newsman Paul Lynch made his debut as a novelist a few years ago with a book called 'Red Sky in Morning,' set in mid-19th century County Donegal, where a rage-driven farmer has committed a murder with devastating results.
Alan Cheuse
#59. Barrons' lips twitched. I'd almost made him smile. Barrons smiles about as often as the sun comes out in Dublin, and it has the same effect on me; makes me feel warm and stupid.
Karen Marie Moning
#60. We are not going to have a zombie-versus-vampire war through the streets of Dublin, Nathaniel.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#61. When I die, Dublin will be written on my heart.
James Joyce
#62. Aston Villa have literally metaphorically had their pants pulled down
Dion Dublin
#63. Solitude is good in the evening. Dublin is a quiet city when you get to a certain age, when your friends settle down and have kids. Nothing much happens here.
Colm Toibin
#64. The thought of hurting him ripped me apart. Ripped me so totally, that I knew, I cared more for him than I did myself.
Samantha Young
#65. I know you mean well, but you have to remember that things don't always work out like they do in your storybooks.
Melissa Hill
#66. If Blake said that, said Father Brian, he never lived in Dublin.
Ray Bradbury
#67. Dublin was turning into Disneyland with super-pubs, a Purgatory open till five in the morning.
Joseph O'Connor
#68. The original Guinness Brewery in Dublin has a 9,000-year lease on its property at a perpetual rate of 45 pounds per year--one of the best bargains in Irish commercial history!
Rashers Tierney
#69. She's definitely a romance writer. I've primed her to be a romance writer, subjecting her to so many romantic dramas it would be a miracle if she didn't become a romance writer.
Samantha Young
#70. Can it be possible that the painters make John the Baptist a Spaniard in Madrid and an Irishman in Dublin?
Mark Twain
#72. He followed you into the staff room and didn't come back for twenty minutes and when he did come back, he looked like he'd been mauled by a woman who'd been locked in an empty room without a vibrator, or a man for ten years!
Samantha Young
#73. I sure love Ireland. The first trip I ever made was last year when I did this record in Dublin.
Michael W. Smith
#74. The first play I wrote was called 'Twenty-five.' It was played by our company in Dublin and London, and was adapted and translated into Irish and played in America.
Lady Gregory
#76. I left the Gaiety School of Acting in Dublin in 2004, and I did five years of theater after that.
Aidan Turner
#77. I think that I must be the only person who left California and headed to Dublin in pursuit of a career in film. The arrow is pointing in the other direction in most people's minds.
Lenny Abrahamson
#78. Dublin City was quiet when they reached the Waxwork Museum, as if it was holding its breath.
Derek Landy
#79. My Dublin wasn't the Dublin of sing-songs, traditional music, sense of history and place and community.
Colin Farrell
#80. This tired abstract anger; inarticulate passive opposition; always the same thing in dublin
Samuel Beckett
#81. Dublin was hardly worried by the war; her old preoccupations were still preoccupations. The intelligentsia continued their parties; their mutual malice was as effervescent as ever.
Louis MacNeice
#82. I came to Ireland 20 years ago as a student, hitch-hiking round for a week and staying in Dublin.
Greta Scacchi
#83. I attended the bedside of a friend who was dying in a Dublin hospital. She lived her last hours in a public ward with a television blaring out a football match, all but drowning our final conversation.
Gabriel Byrne
#84. The engagements I had with Queen Elizabeth and Prince Charles were about reaching out and showing respect to the unionist people. I also recognised that when someone like her makes acts of reconciliation as she did do at the Garden of Remembrance in Dublin, she is 100% behind the peace process.
Martin McGuinness
#85. My first song was about the smog over Dublin in the 1980s, so yeah, I suppose I was always socially conscious. My first song was not a love song, it was about smog.
Damien Dempsey
#86. In 1903, Sir James Power, Lord Mayor of Dublin, was surprised to note on a transatlantic trip that the typical Irish immigrant in America was now "not merely a hewer of wood and a drawer of water." In fact, he remarked that they are "found occupying...respectable positions in society.
Rashers Tierney
#87. The joy of the new, hip, happening, double-espresso Dublin is that you can blame any strange mood on coffee deprivation. This never worked in the era of tea, at least not at the same level of street cred.
Tana French
#88. We're still us," I managed, blinking back tears.
"I don't want there to be any awkwardness between us."
"There won't be. I won't let there be if you won't."
"Good, Sweetheart. Good. We'll just forget about this. It didn't mean anything.
Samantha Young
#89. I was happy in Dublin because it is very cosmopolitan.
Rick Allen
#90. Well, playing a guy who writes songs and busks on Grafton Street in Dublin and falls in love with Marketa Irglova wasn't very difficult for me. There was very little acting going on.
Glen Hansard
#91. After I graduated from college, while traveling around Europe, hitchhiking, doing the tourist thing, I went into a church in Dublin.
Frederica Mathewes-Green
#92. I want to reveal in a simple way the usual - and unusual - life of the city; the corporation workman, the busmen, policemen, the civil servants, the theatres, Moore Street and also, what occupies so large a place in Dublin's life, the literary and artistic.
Patrick Kavanagh
#93. Turn back time to half-past innocence. But that clock's lying on its side, hour hand spinning wildly, in a dirty Dublin alley near a gold makeup pouch half concealed by trash, and an address carved in stone by a dying woman. Broken.
Karen Marie Moning
#94. Sandro's holding is face. You can tell from that it's a knee injury.
Dion Dublin
#95. I suspect that the only thing that will take Articles Two and Three out of the Irish Constitution is when the bombs begin to blow in Dublin in the way that they have been in Belfast and in London.
Norman Tebbit
#96. Marooned by all but one of his new disciples, the busker complete his act unfazed. The perfumed air seems to be replaced by a faint electrical smell like ozone after a lightning strike. When the man becomes a sterling tableau in the setting sun, Leah stares into his unblinking moonstone eye.
Laura Treacy Bentley
#97. You came to Dublin, avenging angel, and what's the first thing you did? Fucked the devil. Oops, shit, eh?
Karen Marie Moning
#98. Food in Dublin has gotten immeasurably better than it was. When I was a kid, there weren't a lot of options. Now you're overwhelmed with options.
James Vincent McMorrow
#99. There's a ruthlessness to the city now that wasn't there before. I was in Dublin a few months ago, when we were shooting Breakfast on Pluto, and if I saw one kid throwing up on the street, I must have seen a hundred of them.
Liam Neeson
#100. He doesn't get that I'm not interested in a superhero boyfriend. I'm going to be the superhero that can kick his ass from one end of Dublin to the other.
Karen Marie Moning
