Famous quotes containing the words irish and/or peer:
“The Irish are often nervous about having the appropriate face for the occasion. They have to be happy at weddings, which is a strain, so they get depressed; they have to be sad at funerals, which is easy, so they get happy.”
—Peggy Noonan (b. 1950)
“Yet them nor peer nor prince can buy,
Till Cherry-ripe themselves do cry.”
—Thomas Campion (15671620)