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Irish Quotes

I come from an Irish working-class background but went to a posh school, and any type of pretension was quickly mocked at home. I've always had a keen eye for pretension.

Home School Eye Irish Always Come

I have only so many foreign-language neurons. When I learned Spanish, that displaced whatever Irish was left, and then I learned German, and that displaced the Spanish, and when I learned Serbo-Croatian, that displaced the German. So I'm a bit of a muddle.

Irish Whatever Left Only Neurons

The working classes in England were always sentimental, and the Irish and Scots and Welsh. The upper-class English are the stiff-upper-lipped ones. And the middle class. They're the ones who are crippled emotionally because they can't move up, and they're desperate not to move down.

Down Class Irish Always Up Middle

The Irish gave the bagpipes to the Scotts as a joke, but the Scotts haven't seen the joke yet.

Irish Joke Seen Gave

One of my greatest sadnesses at the prospective break-up of the Union is that it will set English, Welsh and Northern Irish against Scots in a bitter division of the debts and resources of the whole of the U.K.

Will Irish Resources Division Bitter

I don't think Ireland has ever had a genius for the novel. Of course, there were plenty of Irish novels, but I don't think that was ever the natural means of expression for the Irish.

Think Genius Irish Expression Means

I like the idea that something happens to everybody who comes to L.A. - whether they are Mexican, Irish, black, or hillbillies. You come here, and you leave all your traditions behind. And since there's no traditions here, you just make one up.

Black You Irish Mexican Leave Up

The Irish job was something that had to be sorted out.

Job Irish Out Something Sorted Had

Being Irish, I grew up eating a Sunday roast.

Eating Sunday Irish Up Being Roast

The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.

Harold Nicolson

Wish Want Irish Everyone Enemies

I can do Shakespeare, Ibsen, English accents, Irish accents, no accent, stand on my head, tap dance, sing, look 17 or look 70.

Dance Stand Look I Can Irish Head

A lot of Irish people perform. They perform in drawing rooms. They sing songs and they play piano.

People Drawing Play Irish Piano

I've always been conscious of the fact that there aren't enough Irish voices on British television compared to the amount of Irish people who live there.

Live People Enough Television Irish

You find Jews, Irish, and Italians in every orchestra.

Daniel Barenboim

You Find Irish Orchestra Jews Every

I'm just a true Irish boy at heart.

Heart Boy True Irish Just

The twentieth century had produced a literature in Ireland that kept a tense distance from the sources of faith - and for good reason. Irish writing had suffered a terrible censorship in the twentieth century.

Good Faith Writing Literature Irish

If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks.

Soup Go Irish Raining Out Would

Irish Americans are no more Irish than Black Americans are Africans.

Black More Irish Than

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

Winston Churchill

Irish Always Saint Patrick's Day Odd

The films that I've made with my company Irish DreamTime are close to my heart. 'The Greatest' being one of them, and 'Evelyn' being another.

Heart Irish Company Greatest Being

I grew up in a big, blended Irish Catholic family just outside of Los Angeles.

Family Los Angeles Irish Outside Big

Ninety percent I'll spend on good times, women and Irish Whiskey. The other ten percent I'll probably waste.

Good Women Good Times Irish Whiskey

I am Irish, so I do like a good fight every now and then.

Good Fight I Am Now Irish Like

Our Irish blunders are never blunders of the heart.

Maria Edgeworth

Heart Never Irish Our Blunders

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