No man is an Ireland. – Richard Daley
Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit. – Oscar Wilde
There is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever. – Sigmund Freud, on the Irish
The Irishman’s house is his coffin. – James Joyce
An Irishman’s heart is nothing but his imagination. – George Bernard Shaw
From the great Gales of Ireland, Are the men that God made mad,
For all their wars are merry, And all their songs are sad. – G.K. Chesterton
Romantic Ireland’s dead and gone. It’s with O’Leary in the grave. – Yeats
There isn’t any point in being Irish unless you know that the world is going to break your heart eventually. – Daniel Patrick Moynihan
I know that big people don’t like questions from children. They can ask all the questions they like, How’s school? Are you a good boy? Did you say your prayers? but if you ask them did they say their prayers you might be hit on the head. – Frank McCourt, Angela’s Ashes
Health and life to you. The mate of your choice to you. Land without rent to you, And death in Eireann. – An Irish Toast