Irish

Famous quotes containing the word irish:

“We Irish are too poetical to be poets; we are a nation of brilliant failures, but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

“But Irish had an old soul, you might say. He was a man with a great future behind him, already.”
—Angela Carter (1940–1992)

“The Irish are a fair people; they never speak well of one another.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)