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Irish quotes includes a collection of funny sayings from the likes of Oscar Wilde, George Bernard Shaw and others. Words of wisdom to brighten up your Irish days.
The Best Irish Sayings
- The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you.
Brendan Behan
- I am a drinker with writing problems.
Brendan Behan
- One drink is too many for me and a thousand not enough.
Brendan Behan
- There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary.
Brendan Behan
- I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.
Brendan Behan
- I only drink on two occasions — when I’m thirsty and when I’m not.
Brendan Behan
- When I came back to Dublin I was court-martialled in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
Brendan Behan
- No strangers here, just friends you haven’t met!
Brendan Behan -
Being Irish, I always had this love of words.
Kenneth Branagh
- Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.
Samuel Butler -
You think the Welsh are friendly, but the Irish are fabulous.
Bonnie Tyler
- Be they kings, or poets, or farmers,
They’re a people of great worth,
They keep company with the angels,
And bring a bit of heaven here to earth
Unknown
- May love and laughter light your days Irish in so many ways.
Unknown
- May you live all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift - There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting.
John Millington Synge
- Health and a long life to you.
Land without rent to you.
A child every year to you.
And if you can’t go to heaven,
May you at least die in Ireland.
Unknown
Funny Irish Quotes
- When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Ireland.
J. P. Dunleavy - The Irish gave the bagpipes to the Scotts as a joke, but the Scotts haven’t seen the joke yet.
Oliver Herford
- Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Oliver Goldsmith
- There is an Irish way of paying compliments as though they were irresistible truths which makes what would otherwise be an impertinence delightful.
Katherine Tynan Hinkson
- I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
Jerome K Jerome
- I think the Irish woman was freed from slavery by bingo….
They can go out now, dressed up, with their handbags and have a drink and play bingo. And they deserve it.”
John B. Keane
- A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces but also by the men it honors, the men it remembers.
John F. Kennedy - Every St. Patrick’s Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
Shane Leslie -
The Irish are the only men who know how to cry for the dirty polluted blood of all the world.
Norman Mailer
- I’m Irish. I think about death all the time.
Jack Nicholson
- May those who love us love us.
And those that don’t love us,
May God turn their hearts.
And if He doesn’t turn their hearts,
May he turn their ankles,
So we’ll know them by their limping.
Unknown
Humorous Gaelic
- No human being believes that any other human being has a right to be in bed when he himself is up.
Robert Lynd
- Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead.
Robert Lynd
- I’m troubled, I’m dissatisfied. I’m Irish!
Marianne Moore
- I’ve had bad luck with both my wives. The first one left me and the second one didn’t.
Patrick Murray
- A lament in one ear, maybe, but always a song in the other.
Sean O’Casey
- At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
W. Somerset Maugham
- You know it’s summer in Ireland when the rain gets warmer.
Hal Roach
- One wonders in this place, why anyone is left in Dublin, or London, or Paris where it would be better, one would think to live in a tent or hut, with this magnificent sea and sky, and to breathe this wonderful air which is like wine in one’s teeth.
J. M. Synge -
If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.
Oscar Wilde
Ireland Sayings to Remember
Life is like a cup of tea,
it’s all in how you make it!
Unknown
May the luck of the Irish
Lead to happiest heights
And the highway you travel
Be lined with green lights.
Unknown
Now sweetly lies old Ireland
Emerald green beyond the foam,
Awakening sweet memories,
Calling the heart back home.
Unknown
Always remember to forget
The things that made you sad.
But never forget to remember
The things that made you glad.
Unknown
Ireland, it’s the one place on earth
That heaven has kissed
With melody, mirth,
And meadow and mist.
Unknown
May the joys of today
Be those of tomorrow.
The goblets of life
Hold no dregs of sorrow.
Unknown
George Bernard Shaw
The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor. He takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.
George Bernard Shaw
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.
George Bernard Shaw
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversations.
George Bernard Shaw
There is no love sincerer than the love of food.
George Bernard Shaw
A man who loses his money gains, at the least, experience, and sometimes, something better.
George Bernard Shaw
Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not.
George Bernard Shaw
A life making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing at all.
George Bernard Shaw
Oscar Wilde Words of Wisdom
I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
Oscar Wilde
I can resist everything but temptation.
Oscar Wilde
I love scandals about other people, but scandals about myself don’t interest me. They have not got the charm of novelty.
Oscar Wilde
Murder is always a mistake…One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.
Oscar Wilde
I like Wagner’s music better than anybody’s. It is so loud that one can talk the whole time without people hearing what one says.
Oscar Wilde
There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
Oscar Wilde
One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that, would tell one anything.
Oscar Wilde
The good end happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.
Oscar Wilde
More from Oscar Wilde
I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read on the train.
Oscar Wilde
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
Oscar Wilde
Man always wants to be a women’s first love.
Women have a more subtle instinct:
What they like is to be a man’s last romance.
Oscar Wilde
I never saw a man who looked
With such a wistful eye
Upon that little tent of blue
Which prisoners call the sky
Oscar Wilde
Irish Christmas Saying
A Merry Christmas this December
To a lot of folks I don’t remember.
Unknown
William Butler Yeats
There are no strangers here, only friends that have not yet met.
William Butler Yeats
Education is not filling
William Butler Yeats
The intellect is forced to choose: Perfection of the life, or of the work.
William Butler Yeats
The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
William Butler Yeats
