Irish Quote, an Irish Quote for every occasionAn Irish Quote, potentially a lethal weapon From the mouth of Brendan Behan Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how it's done,they've seen it done everyday, but they're unable to do it themselves. It's not that the Irish are cynical.It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody. I was court-martialled in my absence,and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence. I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn't make it worse.
Irish Quote regarding revolutionYou cannot conquer Ireland. You cannot extinguish the Irish passion for freedom. If our deed has not been sufficient to win freedom,then our children will win it by a better deed. - Padraig Pearse There are in every generation those who shrink from the ultimate sacrifice, but there are in every generation those who make it with joy and laughter and these are the salt of the generations. - Padraig Pearse The contest on our side is not one of rivalry or vengeance, but of endurance. It is not those who can inflict the most but those that can suffer the most who will conquer. - Terence MacSwiney I want peace and quiet. I want it so much I'd die for it. - Michael Collins Mixed bag of QuotesI love everything that's old, old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.- Oliver GoldsmithIt is not those who can inflict the most but those that can suffer the most who will conquer. - Terence MacSwiney I sometimes think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability. -Oscar Wilde To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune, to lose both seems like carelessness. - Oscar Wilde The problem with some people is that when they aren't drunk, they're sober. - W.B. Yeats Men always want to be a woman's first love. Women have a more subtle instinct, what they like is to be a man's last romance.- Oscar Wilde There are no persons capable of stooping so low as those who desire to rise in the world.-Marguerite Blessington We are all born mad. Some remain so. - Samuel Beckett. I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them. - Samuel Beckett Children begin by loving their parents, after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them. - Oscar Wilde Boys are always a great problem to parents, and parents are a never failing source of disappointment to boys. James Connolly
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