Irish Quotes and Sayings


Who gossips with you will gossip of you.
- Anonymous

A drunkard is a dead man, and all dead men are drunk.
- Yeats

We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.
- Winston Churchill

I spent 90% of my money on woman and drink. The rest I wasted.
- George Best

Beware of people who dislike cats.
- Anonymous

There can be no tradition without innovation.
- Earle Hitchner

Continual cheerfulness is a sign of wisdom.
- Anonymous

There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting.
- John Millington Synge

Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
- Lewis

A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
- Jonathan Swift

Great hate follows great love.
- Anonymous

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
- C. S. Lewis

I am a drinker with a writing problem.
- Brendan Behan

If God shuts one door, He opens another.
- Anonymous

You’ll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind.
- Anonymous

If you could drink dreams like the Irish streams
Then the world would be high as the mountain of morn
In the Pool they told us the story
How the English divided the land.
- John Lennon

The Irish gave the bagpipes to the Scotts as a joke, but the Scotts haven’t seen the joke yet.
- Oliver Herford

All the world’s a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.
- Sean Casey

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13 Responses to “Irish Quotes and Sayings”

  1. 13
    Anonymous Says:

    God created whiskey to keep the irish from conquering the world.

  2. 12
    Patrick O'brien Says:

    i have a thought If you drink you get drunk, if you get drunk you fall a sleep. If you fall a sleep you commit no sins. If you commit no sins you go to heaven. So lets Drink and go to Heaven.

  3. 11
    Ged Says:

    at dinner when I was young We were told to shut your mouth and eat your dinner

  4. 10
    ????? Says:

    these are okaiiii

  5. 9
    wally Says:

    my mother always says wen she was young an her family were fed from dinner,,her father would say….you need”nt care where night falls now……..your full…or he wud say..that will keep the dog from the door..another way of explaining it..

  6. 8
    Larz Says:

    here is an addition for one of the above quotes

    “Continual cheerfulness is a sign of wisdom[, or else complete obliviousness].”

    i thought that seemed pretty accurate and would fit in well

  7. 7
    yimbo Says:

    my grandad alwalys said you cant get old without geting cute. he also said you can never let the truth get in the way of a good yarn. fact.

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    Ruairi Newman Says:

    “Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.”
    - George Bernard Shaw

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    Ruairi Newman Says:

    “It’s not that the Irish are cynical. It’s simply that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody.”
    - Brendan Behan

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    Ruairi Newman Says:

    “Ireland, thou friend of my country in my country’s most friendless days, much injured, much enduring land, accept this poor tribute from one who esteems thy worth, and mourns thy desolation.”
    - George Washington, speaking of Ireland’s support for America during the revolution.

  11. 3
    scarlett Says:

    your so backwards, you may aswell be irish

  12. 2
    rachelle Says:

    shut your face and you’ll open it again

  13. 1
    Clara Says:

    These are good

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