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Irishman Quotes & Sayings

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It is somewhat remarkable that Cornwall has produced no musical genius of any note, and yet the Cornishman is akin to the Welshman and the Irishman. — Sabine Baring-Gould

I would never repudiate the fact that I am an Irishman — Ian Paisley

An Irishman can be worried by the consciousness that there is nothing to worry about. — Austin O'Malley

If you ask an Irishman for directions, he might be quick to answer, Well if I were going there, I would not start here. — Steve Stockman

Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to. — Shane Leslie

I'm still a scarred and surly Irishman. — Kresley Cole

I thought I was God's gift to mankind and the greatest Irishman since George Best. — James Nesbitt

A body can get used to anything, even to being hanged, as the Irishman said. — L.M. Montgomery

Scratch an Irishman and he'll bleed a story. — Jean Zimmerman

An Irishman's heart is nothing but his imagination. — George Bernard Shaw

The heart of an Irishman is nothing but his imagination — George Bernard Shaw

I'm still a proud Irishman, of course, but I've become an American citizen. I'm very, very proud of that. — Liam Neeson

How white is an Irishman's ass?" Eve wondered out loud.
"You should know, darling. — J.D. Robb

An Englishman, an Irishman and a Scotsman walk into a bar. The barman looks at them and says: "Is this some kind of a joke?" — Frank Carson

Put an Irishman on the spit and you can always get another Irishman to turn him. — George Bernard Shaw

They have nothing in their whole imperial arsenal that can break the spirit of one Irishman who doesn't want to be broken. — Bobby Sands

I am one who fights without a knack of hoping confidentlysimply a Scotch-Irishman who will not be conquered. — Woodrow Wilson

A transplanted Irishman, German, Englishman is an American in one generation. A transplanted African is not one in five! — Barbara Chase-Riboud

When I met Jimmy Burke in 1964, he practically owned New York's Kennedy Airport. If you ask me, they named the place after the wrong Irishman. — Henry Hill

As you know, I am neither Roman Catholic, Protestant Episcopalian, nor Presbyterian, nor am I an Irishman. — John Bright

Who better than an Irishman can understand the Indians, while still being stirred by tales of the US cavalry? — John Ford

An Irishman's wife gave birth to twins. Her husband wanted to know who the other man was. — Frank Carson

A proper Irishman always does what a lady asks him. Sure an' it's been the ruin av us. We're at the mercy av the petticoats. — L.M. Montgomery

Lost: Heartbeat. Last seen being chased away by an Irishman's shameless grin. Reward if returned. — Whitney K.E.

I went to the meeting with some trepidation for, although I might have met a wizard before, I had never encountered an Irishman. — Iain Pears

Look at me, man, look at me and tell me I don't know what I'm about. I'm Conor Larkin. I'm an Irishman and I've had enough. — Leon Uris

As a consequence [of a closed economic circle], in 1912 there was not a single Irishman who sat on a single board of a major Boston bank. — Doris Kearns Goodwin

The poor silly-clever Irishman takes off his hat to God's Englishman. — George Bernard Shaw

Mulligan: invented by an Irishman who wanted to hit one more twenty yard grounder. — Jim Bishop

Do you know that an Irishman always respond to a question with another?"
And the Irish guy replies "Who told you that? — Cathy Kelly

Show me an Irishman who can't tell a story - I don't think they exist. — Patricia Polacco

Can it be possible that the painters make John the Baptist a Spaniard in Madrid and an Irishman in Dublin? — Mark Twain

The Irishman in English literature may be said to have been born with an apology in his mouth. — James Connolly

I swim in a pool of my own neurosis. I carry love, grief deeply, like an Irishman. — Richard Harris

I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

You are a different kind of Irishman, Goll," was all she said.

"Every Irishman is a different kind of Irishman," said Goll. — Charles Brady

You ran away from an adorable Irishman who wanted to se you naked? — Christine Warren

Alas! the culture of an Irishman is an enterprise to be undertaken with a sort of moral bog hoe. — Henry David Thoreau

This would be a grand land if only every Irishman would kill a negro, and be hanged for it. — Edward Augustus Freeman

Every Irishman, the saying goes, has a potato in his head. — Augustus Hare

Now here I am playing a passionate young Irishman who would die for what he believes in. — James D'arcy

One of the first symptoms of time-lag is a tendency to maudlin sentimentality, like an Irishman in his cups or a Victorian poet cold-sober. — Connie Willis

I am of one mind with the Irishman who said you could get used to anything, even to being hanged! — L.M. Montgomery

An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile. — James Joyce

An Irishman talks best when there is competition. — Mary Doyle Curran

The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner. — W.B.Yeats

Ideally, we'd want an Irishman coming in for the job, but, ideally it doesn't really matter. — Clinton Morrison

I'm first and foremost an Irishman, by birth, by nature, by soul, but an American citizen through and through as well. — Pierce Brosnan

An Englishmen thinks seated; a Frenchmen standing; an American pacing, an Irishman, afterwards. — Austin O'Malley

I am an unusual Irishman. I'm probably Ireland's third most famous Jewish son. — Lenny Abrahamson

A real Irishman will give everything of himself
except that kernel of his soul which makes him a mystery to other peoples. — Jim Tully

In Memoriam, Louis Anglesey, Earl of Upnor, finest swordsman in England, beaten to death with a stick by an Irishman. — Neal Stephenson

To be a young Irishman in London and go to the theater to see 'Rosemary's Baby' ... it scared the crap out of me. — Pierce Brosnan

Have you heard about the Irishman who reversed into a car boot sale and sold the engine? — Frank Carson

I am an Irishman, sir." "Irish Irish?" "Yes, sir. — Arthur Conan Doyle