Top 40 Quotes About Irish Men
#1. However it may be for others, for us of the Citizen Army there is but one ideal - an Ireland ruled, and owned, by Irish men and women, sovereign and independent from the centre to the sea, and flying its own flag outward over all the oceans.
James Connolly
#2. As long as Ireland is unfree the only honourable attitude for Irish men, women to have is an attitude of rebellion.
Patrick Pearse
#3. My heart fluttered on Kaylee's behalf. Being called lovely in an Irish accent ... well that's swoonworthy stuff, take my word for it.
Katrina Abbott
#4. I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them.
John Ashbery
#5. Prettier musings of high-wrought love and eternal constancy could never have passed along the streets of Bath, than Anne was sporting with from Camden-place to Westgate-buildings. It was almost enough to spread purification and perfume all the way.
Jane Austen
#6. The quieter you can make your mind, the more you've invoked your will.
Frederick Lenz
#7. Irish was a man of parts even if some of them didn't work too well.
Angela Carter
#8. Out of the east on an Irish stallion came bounty hunter Dan His heart quickened and burdened by the need to get his man He found Pete peacefully fishing by the river, pulled his gun and got the drop He said, Pete, you think you've changed, but you have not.
Bruce Springsteen
#9. Don't make each room a different color in a small apartment or you'll make yourself nervous.
Elsie De Wolfe
#10. No, men and women of the Irish race, we shall not fight for England. We shall fight for the destruction of the British Empire and the construction of an Irish republic.
James Larkin
#12. There's a curse on me as there's a curse on the Larkin name. The curse comes back, again and again, to taunt me! Ronan! Kilty! Tomas! And now me! What are the Irish among men? Are we lepers? Are we a blight? Will there ever be an end to our tears?
Leon Uris
#13. I've always found the Irish really attractive-they make wonderful writers and sexy firefighters, and if they didn't like the Red Socks they'd be perfect.
Julie Klausner
#14. An Irish man fights before he reasons, a Scotchman reasons before he fights, an Englishman is not particular as to the order of precedence, but will do either to accommodate his customers.
Charles Caleb Colton
#15. It was a difficult time to be Irish, a difficult time to be twenty-one years of age and a difficult time to be a man who was attracted to other men. To be all three simultaneously required a level of subterfuge and guile that felt contrary to my nature.
John Boyne
#16. 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
#17. It seems to me you do not care what banality a man expresses so long as he expresses it in Irish.
James Joyce
#18. If I grew up in the simple-minded belief that women were as strong and intelligent as men, it was because I came from a society that had once believed it.
Shirley Abbott
#20. The FBI had been a man's world - usually men of Irish or Italian heritage schooled by Jesuits and raised in a closed culture of police and priests.
Tim Weiner
#21. The executed men were cursed, and praised, and doubted, and despised, and held to account, and blackened, and wondered at, and mourned, all in a confusion complicated infinitely by the site of war.
Sebastian Barry
#22. Dead men hear no tales; posthumous fame is an Irish bull.
Israel Zangwill
#23. The Irish tell the story of a man who arrives at the gates of heaven and asks to be let in St. Peter says, "Of course, just show us your scars." The man says, "I have no scars". St. Peter says, "What a pity was there nothing worth fighting for"?
Martin Sheen
#24. I have seen many men work without praying, though I have never seen any good come out of it; but I have never seen a man pray without working.
Hudson Taylor
#25. Half the people in London were not English anyway: they were Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Caribbean, Indian and Chinese. All the drug dealers came from islands: Maltese men sold pep pills,
Ken Follett
#27. What, then, is this new man, the American? They are a mixture of English, Scotch, Irish, French, Dutch, Germans, and Swedes. From this promiscuous breed, that race, now called Americans, have arisen.
J. Hector St. John De Crevecoeur
#28. I used to do this big rant at the end of some gigs with Ben Folds Five. The band broke into this big heavy metal thing and I started as a joke to scream in a heavy metal falsetto. I found myself saying things like: Feel my pain, I am white, feel my pain.
Ben Folds
#30. The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad,
For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad.
G.K. Chesterton
#31. We are forever asking Nature whether it has stopped beating its wife.
Abraham Kaplan
#32. The Irish Six Million Dollar man only cost three quid.
Frank Carson
#33. The Irish are the only men who know how to cry for the dirty polluted blood of all the world.
Norman Mailer
#34. If everyone is a changemaker, there's no way a problem can outrun a solution
Bill Drayton
#35. Autism is the fastest growing developmental disability in our nation.
Mary Bono
#36. In the era of security clearances, to be an Irish Catholic became prima facie evidence of loyalty. Harvard men were to be checked; Fordham men would do the checking.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
#37. 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
#38. If [God] send me no husband, for the which blessing I am at him upon my knees every morning and evening ...
William Shakespeare
#39. The Irish are people who will never have leaders, for at the great moment they always desert them. They have produced one skeleton
Parnell
never a man.
James Joyce
#40. It was a saying about noble figures in old Irish poems - he would give his hawk to any man that asked for it, yet he loved his hawk better than men nowadays love their bride of tomorrow. He would mourn a dog with more grief than men nowadays mourn their fathers.
Ted Hughes
