Top 183 Dublin Quotes & Sayings

Dublin was turning into Disneyland with super-pubs, a Purgatory open till five in the morning.

I love working in Dublin, but when I'm in London, I'm more focused on my career.

Dublin ... is not only the capital of a nation, but the capital of an idea. The idea of Irishness is not universally beloved. Some people mock it, some hate it, some fear it. On the whole, though, I think it fair to say, the world interprets it chiefly as a particular kind of happiness, a happiness sometimes boozy and violent, but essentially innocent: and this ineradicable spirit of merriment informs the Dublin genius to this day.

It's that kind of Dublin mentality: you just have to grin and bear some things.

Dublin is one of my favourite cities. It's an absolutely amazing place.

But one of the most fantastic things about Ireland and Dublin is that the pubs are like Paris and the cafe culture. And Dublin, in many ways, is a pub culture.

Dublin City was quiet when they reached the Waxwork Museum, as if it was holding its breath.

Today I am so at home in Dublin, more than in any other city, that I feel it has always been familiar to me. But, as with Belfast it took me years to penetrate its outer ugliness and dourness, so with Dublin it took me years to see through its soft charm to its bitter prickly kernel - which I quite like too.

I sure love Ireland. The first trip I ever made was last year when I did this record in Dublin.

I came to Ireland 20 years ago as a student, hitch-hiking round for a week and staying in Dublin.

I didn't know who Bob Geldof or Richard Branson were and I thought Dublin was part of England.

It is ridiculous to believe that Greece might be taking in one million migrants, registering them, then giving refuge to those who have a right to asylum and sending everyone back that does not. Greece is not doing that. We can blame the Greeks for that, but at the same time we should change the Dublin Regulation. When we insist on this unrealistic procedure, it means nothing more than that we are defending Dublin while renouncing Schengen.

I don't think I've actually drunk a beer for 15 years, except a few Guinnesses in Dublin, where it's the law.

My average day is with my wife and kids in Dublin, doing school runs, grocery store, feeding and walking the dogs.

When I die, I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin. I wonder would they know it was me?

Before we kill Schengen, we have to make Dublin work.

I left the Gaiety School of Acting in Dublin in 2004, and I did five years of theater after that.

I'm not recognised that much. I'm just a bald man in glasses and there's a rash of them in Dublin. It'd be different if I had a mohican.

Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as it was yesterday when you and I laid wreaths at the Garden of Remembrance.

I love Dublin and the locals are extraordinary.

I am at home in Dublin, more than in any other city.

The Good Friday Agreement and the basic rights and entitlements of citizens that are enshrined within it must be defended and actively promoted by London and Dublin.

I always went to Ireland as a child. I remember trips to Dundalk, Wexford, Cork and Dublin. My gran was born in Dublin, and we had a lot of Irish friends, so we'd stay on their farms and go fishing. They were fantastic holidays - being outdoors all day and coming home to a really warm welcome in the evenings.

Everyone knows everyone because we've all worked in theatre. All of our 'Dublin Murders' crew came from 'Game of Thrones'. Also, we only drink in two pubs in Dublin, so we always bump into each other.

When I come home, I say I'm coming home to Dublin. When I'm in Dublin, I say I'm going home to New York. I'm sort of a man of two countries.

My dad was Dublin born and bred - a Dublin boy - but he always pushed me to play for what was Wales Under-15s in my day.

Can it be possible that the painters make John the Baptist a Spaniard in Madrid and an Irishman in Dublin?

I was happy in Dublin because it is very cosmopolitan.

When I die Dublin will be written on my heart.

There are certainly many British plays which go down far better with Dublin audiences than they would in Belfast.

Dublin is really fun, and Irish people are hilarious.

Dublin university contains the cream of Ireland: Rich and thick.

For me, people in Ireland who became actors would have to go through the Billy Barry's in Dublin.

You've just provided me with the makings of one hell of a weekend in Dublin.

Welcome to the O2. A unique building in Dublin, in that it is actually finished.

I think Dublin is the best place in the world, all you need is money. I feel safe here, no one is going to shoot me, like in the States.

There was no doubt about it: if you wanted to succeed you had to go away. You could do nothing in Dublin.

I'm pleased to say I grew up in a happy family in Dublin. I feel we're very close.

James Joyce wrote the definitive work about Dublin while he was living in Switzerland. We're all where we come from. We all have our roots.

I used to pretend that my Peugeot driving to the gym in the rain in Dublin was a Ferrari on the Vegas strip.

Night fell clean and cold in Dublin, and wind moaned beyond my room as if a million pipes played the air.

I'm crazy about Dublin. If you went back 3,000 years in my ancestry you wouldn't find a drop of Irish blood in the veins, but I love the place.

When I was 18, I left Dublin and moved to Paris. I didn't speak French. I didn't know anyone. I felt like a fish out of water.

Fabulous place, Dublin is. The trouble is, you work hard and in Dublin you play hard as well.

The secret of my success is my mother, who was from Dublin. All my relations are in Dublin or in the west, or as I found out, we went to Rostrevor in Northern Ireland to film and I got out, while they changed cars around, and this man said to me: "You know you have cousins in this town? And they're coming down to see you..." And so they did. I'm sorry we didn't go to a lot more places, so that I could find a lot more cousins. So, that was good. It's entirely because my father was also brought up in Dublin. So, that's my link.

For myself, I always write about Dublin, because if I can get to the heart of Dublin I can get to the heart of all the cities of the world. In the particular is contained the universal.

When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

I've only been to Dublin once, and I had a great time. I got completely soaked because it was rainy.

All I do in Dublin is relax and live away from the cameras. There are a few coffee shops I love and I spend my days in there drinking cappuccinos.

When I die Dublin will be written in my heart.

Once the monetary sovereignty is retaken, one can make a last attempt to renegotiate all of the treaties: Maastricht, Schengen, Dublin, and Lisbon.

It is important that we return to the principles of the Dublin agreement and help Greece with European funds to accommodate refugees.

Good puzzle would be cross Dublin without passing a pub.

My father was from Belfast; my mother was from Crossmolina. I grew up in Dublin.

I want to give a picture of Dublin so complete that if the city suddenly disappeared from the earth it could be reconstructed out of my book.

My Dublin wasn't the Dublin of sing-songs, traditional music, sense of history and place and community.

I'm the king of Dublin.

I go off into Dublin and two days later I'm spotted walking by the Liffey with a whole bunch of new friends.

New York and Dublin are now suburbs of each other.

After I graduated from college, while traveling around Europe, hitchhiking, doing the tourist thing, I went into a church in Dublin.