Quotes on Being Irish

But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

Ireland, sir, for good or evil, is like no other place under heaven, and no man can touch its sod or breathe its air without becoming better or worse.

There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.

This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever.

Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.

Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing noise they make as they go by.

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.

I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.

The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad, For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad.

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