Quotes About The 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 would love to play a British character one day. My accent wavers between Scottish and Irish very easily, though.

Chris Lilley

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

Marianne Moore

#5. 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

#6. 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

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

Anne Enright

#8. 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

#9. 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

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

Lew Bryson