Ireland Quotes for Whatsapp and Facebook Status
Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.
James Joyce (1882-1941) Irish novelist
Fightin’ like divils for conciliation, an’ hatin’ each other for the love of God.
Charles James Lever (1809-1872) Irish novelist
Put an Irishman on the spit, and you can always get another Irishman to turn him.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Anglo-Irish playwright, critic
The Irish are a fair people; they never speak well of one another.
Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
The moment the very name of Ireland is mentioned, the English seem to … act with the barbarity of tyrants and the fatuity of idiots.
Sydney Smith (1771-1845) English writer, clergyman
Like all Irishmen I suffer from agrophobia —fear of agriculture. In England farming is a hobby or an affectation. In Ireland it’s a tragic existence.
Brendan Behan (1923-1964) Irish playwright
In Ireland there is so little sense of compromise that a girl has to choose between perpetual adoration and perpetual pregnancy.
George Moore (1852-1933) Irish author
There is an Irish way of paying compliments as though they were irresistible truths which makes what would otherwise be an impertinence delightful.
Katharine Tynan Hinkson (1861-1931) Irish poet, novelist
The Gael is not like other men; the spade, and the loom, and the sword are not for him. But a destiny more glorious fan that of Rome, more glorious than that of Britain, awaits him: to become the saviour of idealism in modern intellectual and social life.
Patrick Pearse (1879-1916) Irish nationalist, educator
My one claim to originality among Irishmen is that I have never made a speech.
George Moore (1852 -1933) Irish author
