{"product_id":"2940013988071","title":"The Quotable Irish","description":"The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone\u003cbr\u003eto wish their enemies ill.\u003cbr\u003e-Harold Nicolson\u003cbr\u003eWhen I get a very generous introduction like that, I explain that I'm\u003cbr\u003eemotionally moved, but on the other hand I'm Irish and the Irish are\u003cbr\u003every emotionally moved. My mother is Irish and she cries during beer\u003cbr\u003ecommercials.\u003cbr\u003e- Former U.S. General Barry McCaffrey\u003cbr\u003eIreland is a peculiar society in the sense that it was a nineteenth\u003cbr\u003ecentury society up to about 1970 and then it almost bypassed the\u003cbr\u003etwentieth century.\u003cbr\u003e- Author John McGahern\u003cbr\u003eWe have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.\u003cbr\u003e- Winston Churchill\u003cbr\u003eWell, it takes all kinds of men to build a railroad.\u003cbr\u003eNo sir, just us Irish.\u003cbr\u003e- Railroad barons in \"Dodge City,\" Warner Bros., 1939\u003cbr\u003eIreland, sir, for good or evil, is like no other place under heaven, and\u003cbr\u003eno man can touch its sod or breathe its air without becoming better or\u003cbr\u003eworse.\u003cbr\u003e- George Bernard Shaw\u003cbr\u003ewww.ifpei.com\u003cbr\u003eYou know it's summer in Ireland when the rain gets warmer.\u003cbr\u003e- Hal Roach\u003cbr\u003eThere is, for whatever reason, an international tendency to be welldisposed\u003cbr\u003etowards Ireland - a tendency that elevates us beyond our\u003cbr\u003eactual standing on the world stage.\u003cbr\u003e- Ivana Bacik, Irish barrister and Labour Party candidate\u003cbr\u003e\"The Irish gave the bagpipes to the Scotts as a joke, but the Scotts\u003cbr\u003ehaven't seen the joke yet.\"\u003cbr\u003e- Oliver Herford\u003cbr\u003eI'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt.\u003cbr\u003e- Edna O'Brien\u003cbr\u003eThe worst threat to Irish farmers is not foot and mouth disease, but a\u003cbr\u003epostal strike.\u003cbr\u003e- Popular saying in rural Ireland, referring to Irish farmers' heavy\u003cbr\u003edependence on government subsidy checks to survive.\u003cbr\u003eThe great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad. For all\u003cbr\u003etheir wars are merry, and all their songs are sad.\u003cbr\u003e- G.K. Chesterton\u003cbr\u003ewww.ifpei.com\u003cbr\u003eIreland, thou friend of my country in my country's most friendless\u003cbr\u003edays, much injured, much enduring land, accept this poor tribute from\u003cbr\u003eone who esteems thy worth, and mourns thy desolation.\u003cbr\u003e- George Washington, speaking of Ireland's support for America\u003cbr\u003eduring the revolution.\u003cbr\u003eRain is also very difficult to film, particularly in Ireland because it's\u003cbr\u003equite fine, so fine that the Irish don't even acknowledge that it exists.\u003cbr\u003e- Alan Parker, director of \"The Commitments\"\u003cbr\u003eThere is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting.\u003cbr\u003e- John Millington Synge\u003cbr\u003eIt's not that the Irish are cynical. It's simply that they have a\u003cbr\u003ewonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody.\u003cbr\u003e- Brendan Behan\u003cbr\u003eWhen I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a\u003cbr\u003ewoman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of\u003cbr\u003ethe Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't\u003cbr\u003ebelieve?\u003cbr\u003e- Quentin Crisp\u003cbr\u003ewww.ifpei.com\u003cbr\u003eBeing Irish is very much a part of who I am. I take it everywhere with\u003cbr\u003eme.\u003cbr\u003e- Colin Farrell\u003cbr\u003eBeing Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him\u003cbr\u003ethrough temporary periods of joy.\u003cbr\u003e- William Butler Yeats\u003cbr\u003eBut I will say that living in Ireland has changed the cadence and\u003cbr\u003efullness of speech, since the Irish love words and use as many of\u003cbr\u003ethem in a sentence as possible.\u003cbr\u003e- Anne McCaffrey\u003cbr\u003eEven when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a\u003cbr\u003ejoy.\u003cbr\u003e- Fiona Shaw\u003cbr\u003eEverything that we inherit, the rain, the skies, the speech, and\u003cbr\u003eanybody who works in the English language in Ireland knows that\u003cbr\u003ethere's the dead ghost of Gaelic in the language we use and listen to\u003cbr\u003eand that those things will reflect our Irish identity.\u003cbr\u003e- John McGahern\u003cbr\u003eIf one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to\u003cbr\u003elisten, society here would be quite civilized.\u003cbr\u003e- Oscar Wilde\u003cbr\u003ewww.ifpei.com\u003cbr\u003eIrish Americans are no more Irish than Black Americans are Africans.\u003cbr\u003e- Bob Geldof\u003cbr\u003eIrish poets, learn your trade, sing whatever is well made, scorn the\u003cbr\u003esort now growing up all out of shape from toe to top.\u003cbr\u003e- William Butler Yeats\u003cbr\u003eMy first thought when I came here was that I understood why there\u003cbr\u003eare so many great Irish writers - because there is something mystical\u003cbr\u003ein the air. There's always this cloudy, moody sky and it's challenging.\u003cbr\u003e- Christopher Meloni\u003cbr\u003eThe Irish are the only men who know how to cry for the dirty polluted\u003cbr\u003eblood of all the world.\u003cbr\u003e- Norman Mailer\u003cbr\u003eThe Irish seem to have more fire about them than the Scots.\u003cbr\u003e- Sean Connery\u003cbr\u003eTo marry the Irish is to look for poverty.\u003cbr\u003e- J. P. 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