Thomas Moore  - Quotes

 Though the last glimpse of Erin with sorrow I see,

Yet wherever thou art shall seem Erin to me;

In exile thy bosom shall still be my home,

And thine eyes make my climate wherever we roam.
 

Tags: ireland   sorrow     


Courtney Love  - Quotes

 [Kurt Cobain] had a lot of German in him. Some Irish. But no Jew. I think that if he had had a little Jew he would have [expletive] stuck it out. 

Tags: ethnicity   germans   germany   ireland   irish   jews   judaism     
William Butler Yeats  - Quotes

 I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. 

Tags: cows   death   fairies   fear   human   ireland   kettle   kidnap   mice   peace   wild   world   youth     


W.H. Auden  - Quotes

 Mad Ireland hurt you into poetry. 

Tags: auden   hurt   ireland   poetry   yeats     
William Butler Yeats  - Quotes

 The Celt, and his cromlechs, and his pillar-stones, these will not change much  

Tags: celtic   celts   folklore   ireland   irish   supernatural   superstition   unknown     
Flann O'Brien  - Quotes

 Moderation, we find, is an extremely difficult thing to get in this country. 

Tags: ireland   moderation     
William Butler Yeats  - Quotes

 Out of Ireland have we come.

Great hatred, little room,

Maimed us at the start.

I carry from my mother's womb

A fanatic heart.
 

Tags: ireland     
James Joyce  - Quotes

 The sea, the snotgreen sea, the scrotumtightening sea. 

Tags: ireland   irish   lyrical     
Frank Delaney  - Quotes

 When I come out on the road of a morning, when I have had a night's sleep and perhaps a breakfast, and the sun lights a hill on the distance, a hill I know I shall walk across an hour or two thence, and it is green and silken to my eye, and the clouds have begun their slow, fat rolling journey across the sky, no land in the world can inspire such love in a common man. 

Tags: ireland   storytelling   travel     
James Joyce  - Quotes

 My heart is quite calm now. I will go back. 

Tags: dublin   ireland     
Iris Murdoch  - Quotes

 I think being a woman is like being Irish... Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the time. 

Tags: feminism   ireland   irish   women     
Jamie O'Neill  - Quotes

 He saw the black water and the declining sun and the swan dipping down, its white wings flashing, and slowing and slowing till silver ripples carried it home. It was a scene which seemed the heart of this land. The lowing sun and the one star waking, white wings on a black water, and the smell of rain, and the long lane fading where a voice comes in the falling night.

--Ireland, said Scrotes.

--Yes, this is Ireland.

 

Tags: ireland     
Nora Roberts  - Quotes

 The tune was sad, as the best of Ireland was, melancholy and lovely as a lover's tears. 

Tags: ireland   music   romance     
Jamie O'Neill  - Quotes

 Grey morning dulled the bay. Banks of clouds, Howth just one more bank, rolled to sea, where other Howths grumbled to greet them. Swollen spumeless tide. Heads that bobbed like floating gulls and gulls that floating bobbed like heads. Two heads. At swim, two boys. 

Tags: ireland     
Daniel Patrick Moynihan  - Quotes

 To be Irish is to know that in the end the world will break your heart. 

Tags: apocalypse   ireland   irish     
C.E. Murphy  - Quotes

 In Ireland, you go to someone's house, and she asks you if you want a cup of tea. You say no, thank you, you're really just fine. She asks if you're sure. You say of course you're sure, really, you don't need a thing. Except they pronounce it ting. You don't need a ting. Well, she says then, I was going to get myself some anyway, so it would be no trouble. Ah, you say, well, if you were going to get yourself some, I wouldn't mind a spot of tea, at that, so long as it's no trouble and I can give you a hand in the kitchen. Then you go through the whole thing all over again until you both end up in the kitchen drinking tea and chatting.



In America, someone asks you if you want a cup of tea, you say no, and then you don't get any damned tea.



I liked the Irish way better.
 

Tags: hospitality   humor   ireland     


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