Top 1200 Irish Drinking Quotes & Sayings - Page 19
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Last updated on April 20, 2025.
I think now, more than anytime I can remember, bands are sounding pretty similar whether they're English or American, from Manchester or London... or Leeds or Welsh or Irish.
If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.
Extraordinary scenes there at the end. I think some of the crowd chanting 'Italy! Italy!' were actually Irish.
Our Irish blunders are never blunders of the heart.
Howth is a wonderful part of the world. I love the Irish. Howth is extremely charming so anyone would be lucky to have a house there.
I turned Hamlet down because it was going to take up too much of my drinking time.
I am half Bengali and half Irish by birth.
I would love to be able to speak my own language and maybe have an interview in Irish, maybe after my fights.
The economy in Ireland has been rampaging ahead for the last 15 years. Barring an international, political or natural catastrophe, things can only get better for the Irish.
On the Northern Ireland question, for instance, the British and Irish governments prohibit media contact with members of the IRA, but we have always gone ahead, believing in the right to information.
We have, therefore, directed the Irish Army authorities to have field hospitals established in County Donegal adjacent to Derry and at other points along the Border where they may be necessary.
My mother - the Irish side of the family - was very musical. My mother was a singer; there was music around the house all the time.
My first thought when I came here was that I understood why there are so many great Irish writers - because there is something mystical in the air. There's always this cloudy, moody sky and it's challenging.
I basically have the diet of a 19th-century Irish navy, apart from the litre of stout a day. It's meat and potatoes and bread and cheese: those are my four food groups.
Irish poets, learn your trade, sing whatever is well made, scorn the sort now growing up all out of shape from toe to top.
If there is a distinctive Irish experience, it is one of division, exacerbated by the fact that division in a country so small seems perverse. But the scale doesn't matter.
The strange thing is I can't play jigs or reels or any of that traditional Irish stuff as well as I ought to, whereas I think I have got a good ear for blues, the tonality of it and so on.
I'm lucky because I have so many clashing cultural, racial things going on: black, Jewish, Irish, Portuguese, Cherokee. I can float and be part of any community I want.
Drinking all day
Big chiefing at night
I keep my eyes red and tight
So that my teeth can look white
I am Michael, and I am part English, Irish, German, and Scottish, sort of a virtual United Nations.
Desmond O'Grady is one of the senior figures in Irish
Literary life, exemplary in the way he has committed
himself over the decades to the vocation of poetry and
has lived selflessly for the art
Long before I became 'rich and famous' I just sat round drinking wine and staring at the walls.
Ninety percent I'll spend on good times, women and Irish Whiskey. The other ten percent I'll probably waste.
Once you stop drinking and smoking and stuff, it really gets on your nerves, all that nonsense going on.
I suppose when some people see you on TV, they expect you to be this flamboyant, champagne-drinking stud. But I'm not like that.
The one conclusive argument that has at all times discouraged people from drinking a poison is not that it kills but rather that it tastes bad.
I didn't know what was going on at the start in the swirling wind. The flags were all pointing in different directions and I thought the Irish had starched them just to fool us.
Islamic State practise a brand of Islamic law so strict that apparently Raqqa only has two Irish Pubs.
They say there are only two kinds of people on St. Patrick's Day: the Irish, and the people that drive them home.
The true meaning of the precepts is that one should refrain not only from drinking alcohol but also from getting drunk on nirvana.
Cursing is heavily used in the Irish language. It's not a stretch for me, and I have no qualms about it. It doesn't fall far from the real me.
After my son died, I went to a psychiatrist. He proved - or I proved - that Sigmund Freud was correct when he said that the Irish are impervious to psychoanalysis.
Maybe some things that weren't so great were said about the Irish when they came. But Americans've done well by absorbing immigrants and it's made our nation stronger.
To be Irish today is the abandonment of shame and the younger people are moving it out and they're moving the fear away. They're not afraid, they're adventurous.
I see myself as part English and part American, with a dash of Irish thrown in, and a pinch of Italian from my mother's ancestry.
I had a lot of frustrations, and I was drinking far too much, and I was just trying to survive and this is what came out of it.
When I hit the scene, there was Billy Connolly and Max Boyce. It was all mother-in-law and Irish jokes, and we broke the mould. Now there are thousands of comedians out there, and I don't think I can be above it all.
So many Irish actors overplay that modesty because they're afraid people will judge them and say, 'The state of yer man, he thinks he's great,' or whatever.
There was that sense that as soon as a Northern Irish person opens their mouth, you go, 'Ah, terrorist,' so I refused to do TV and film. Instead, I did theatre for 20 years.
Many cultures believe that on a certain day - Halloween, the Irish Samhain Eve, Mexico's 'Dia de los Muertos' - the veil between this world and the next is especially thin.
I gave up drinking lots of whiskey and began to practice yoga and meditation. As a result I am not dead.
For years, agency officials said that atrazine in drinking water posed almost no risk to humans or the environment.
A beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy monogamists, all powerful and members of the best families all drinking themselves to death.
The doctor frowned upon drinking and often expressed wonderment at men who willingly made imbeciles of themselves.
If you're eating or drinking something made from cow's milk, it's because a calf chained in a box somewhere isn't.
A weekend in Vegas without gambling and drinking is just like being a born-again Christian.
Yes, I am an Irish lass through and through.
Before the Great Chicago Fire, no one took notice of Patrick and Catherine O'Leary, two Irish immigrants who lived with their five children on the city's West Side.
St. Patrick... one of the few saints whose feast day presents the opportunity to get determinedly whacked and make a fool of oneself all under the guise of acting Irish.
Irishness is not primarily a question of birth or blood or language; it is the condition of being involved in the Irish situation, and usually of being mauled by it.
If any Englishman said he has never called a Chinaman a chink he is lying. There is nothing bad about doing that. It is like calling the British Brits, or the Irish Paddies.
There are hundreds of thousands of Scots who acknowledge English, Irish or Welsh parts of their very being. Lives and destinies are similarly intertwined in Catalonia and Spain, in Ukraine and Russia.
The English treatment of the Irish was appalling. It was absolutely appalling.
Every Irish person of my generation and earlier, we were raised Catholic and we'd have to learn it in school, we'd to learn the catechism by rote.
But more than anything else, for the British folks Irish people were all terrorists. So when we went to Britain, it was always a lot of resistance to U2. And that's why we came to America.
Your mother and I do not approve of drinking. Have you not heard of the Eighteenth Amendment?” “Prohibition? I drink to its health whenever I can.
It's true of Irish Catholic families. They're big on story telling and big on saving stories from one generation to the next.
I'm born and raised in the Northeast. My parents are Irish immigrants. So our tendency is to shy away from the big yellow ball that comes up in the sky every once in a while.
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.
Why are Americans so fascinated by Ireland?" Keith asked... "you all think you're Irish. What's the appeal? Do you like the accent more? Is it all the magical rocks? Oh, look, a leprechaun.
