On she went, and her maiden smile
In safety lighted her round the Green Isle;
And blest forever was she who relied
Upon Erin’s honor and Erin’s pride.
Thomas Moore
Irish Toasts | Alcohol Sayings, Liquor Quotes
The curse of the Irish is not that they don’t know the words to a song — it’s that they know them all.
The curse of the Irish is not that they don’t know the words to a song — it’s that they know them all.
Susan Dooley
In Ireland the inevitable never happens and the unexpected constantly occurs.
In Ireland the inevitable never happens and the unexpected constantly occurs.
Sir John Pentland Mahaffy
This [the Irish] is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever.
This [the Irish] is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever.
Sigmund Freud
The Irish are not in a conspiracy to cheat the world by
The Irish are not in a conspiracy to cheat the world by false representations of the merits of their countrymen. No, Sir; the Irish are FAIR PEOPLE; they never speak well of one another.
Samuel Johnson
It is better to spend money like there’s no tomorrow, than to spend tonight like there’s no money.
It is better to spend money like there’s no tomorrow, than to spend tonight like there’s no money.
P.J. O’Rourke
We Irish are too poetical to be poets; we are a nation of brilliant failures, but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks.
We Irish are too poetical to be poets; we are a nation of brilliant failures, but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
Work is the curse of the drinking class.
Work is the curse of the drinking class.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
We are all of us in the gutter.
We are all of us in the gutter.
But some of us are looking at the stars.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
If one could only teach the English how to talk and the Irish how to listen, society would be quite civilized.
If one could only teach the English how to talk and the Irish how to listen, society would be quite civilized.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
