Quotes About Irish Character

#1. When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously tenacious.

Edna O'Brien

#2. Exquisitely embroidered tapestries lined the walls of Medb's bedroom, but their impact was somewhat reduced by the room's ambience. A musky odor with pungent accents of stale piss.

David H. Millar

#3. I don't like this idea
It is too much focus
on something I am trying to forget
I am afraid
that this attention to detail
will only fuel my anxiety

Samantha Schutz

#4. I would love to play a British character one day. My accent wavers between Scottish and Irish very easily, though.

Chris Lilley

#5. All successful employers are stalking men who will do the unusual, men who think, men who attract attention by performing more than is expected of them.

Charles M. Schwab

#6. Hindered characters / seldom have mothers / in Irish stories, but they all have grandmothers.

Marianne Moore

#7. The title, the name Frank, comes from this extraordinary British character Frank Friedbottom. He was very big in Britain in the '80s, but I, as an Irish kid, saw him on 'Top of the Charts.'

Lenny Abrahamson

#8. Who can doubt that between the English and the French, between the Scotch and the Irish, there are differences of character which have profoundly affected and still affect the course of history?

Goldwin Smith

#9. I'm really open to just about anything but I think the real dream is to be able to write my own thing.

Nick Jonas

#10. If you will take my advice you will think little of Socrates, and a great deal more of truth.

Socrates

#11. The kind of person took milk in his tea on one day and decided against it on the next.

Anne Enright

#12. 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

#13. I love creating stories, dreaming up characters and breathing life into them. From several generations of Irish storytellers, I think that's what I was born to do.

Linda Conrad

#14. Irish has not so much a common formula as a common character.

Lew Bryson

#15. You get used to anything, sooner or later it just becomes your life.

Bruce Springsteen