Famous quotes containing the words irish and/or famine:
“The Irish are a fair people; they never speak well of one another.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)
“I knew the poor,
I knew the hideous death they die,
when famine lays its bleak hand on the door;
I knew the rich,
sated with merriment,
who yet are sad.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)