Famous quotes containing the words irish and/or times:
“The Irish are a fair people; they never speak well of one another.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)
“All that we did, all that we said or sang
Must come from contact with the soil, from that
Contact everything Antaeus-like grew strong.
We three alone in modern times had brought
Everything down to that sole test again,
Dream of the noble and the beggarman.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)