Irishmen Quotes - Page 2

• As a member of the Protestant British squirearchy ruling Ireland, he was touchy about his Irish origins. When in later life an enthusiastic Gael commended him as a famous Irishman, he replied "A man can be born in a stable, and yet not be an animal.

  Duque de Wellington

  Animal, Men, Born

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• An Irishman will always soften bad news, so that a major coronary is no more than 'a bad turn' and a near hurricane that leaves thousands homeless is 'good drying weather'.

  Hugh Leonard

  Weather, News, Hurricanes

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• I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Advice, Events, Realistic

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• I read the story and reread the story, but I still could not find the universality that the little Irishman had spoken of. All I saw in the story was some Irishmen meeting in a room and talking politics. What had that to do with America, especially with my people? It was not until years later that I saw what he meant ... I began to listen, to listen closely to how they talked about their heroes, to how they talked about the dead and how great the dead had once been. I heard it everywhere.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Hero, Talking, Years

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• Can it be possible that the painters make John the Baptist a Spaniard in Madrid and an Irishman in Dublin?

  Mark Twain

  Pain, Baptists, Dublin

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.4285, Delphi Classics

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• The Irishman frees himself from slavery when he realizes the truth that the capitalist system is the most foreign thing in Ireland. The Irish question is a social question. The whole age-long fight of the Irish people against their oppressors resolves itself in the last analysis into a fight for the mastery of the means of life, the sources of production, in Ireland. Who would own and control the land? The people, or the invaders; and if the invaders, which set of them - the most recent swarm of land thieves, or the sons of the thieves of a former generation?

  James Connolly

  Mean, Fighting, Son

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• ¡Pero me gustaba Yeats! Ese irlandés salvaje. Me encantaba su amor por el lenguaje, su fluidez. Sus ideas caóticas me parecían justo lo que necesitaba un poeta. ¡Pasión! Siempre estaba del lado correcto. Podía estar equivocado, pero su corazón siempre estaba del lado correcto. Escribía poesía hermosa.

  Chinua Achebe

  Beautiful, Passion, Heart

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• Piensa en las islas que llevan los nombres de todos los santos, erizadas de fortalezas como castaños o Equinidæ, y sin embargo la policía no permite que un par de irlandeses tengan una pelea privada de sparring en una de ellas, ya que es un monopolio del gobierno; todos los grandes puertos marítimos están en actitud de boxeo, y debes navegar prudentemente entre dos hileras de nudillos de piedra antes de llegar a sentir el calor de sus pechos.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Couple, Attitude, Sea

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• There were two Irishmen eating sandwiches in a pub and the landlord said: "You can't eat your own food in here." So they swapped sandwiches.

  Frank Carson

  Divertido, Humor, Dos

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• Verily, chemistry is not a splitting of hairs when you have got half a dozen raw Irishmen in the laboratory.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Hair, Half, Dozen

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Cape Cod (Annotated Edition)”, p.171, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The doctors are all agreed that I am suffering for want of society. Was never a case like it. First, I did not know that I was suffering at all. Secondly, as an Irishman might say, I had thought it was indigestion of the society I got.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Doctors, Solitude, Suffering

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1861, Delphi Classics

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• La cultura de un irlandés es una empresa que debe emprenderse con una especie de azada moral.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Hoe, Culture, Bogs

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walden”, p.176, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I am one who fights without a knack of hoping confidentlysimply a Scotch-Irishman who will not be conquered.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Fighting, Scotch, Knack

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• Me creía el regalo de Dios a la humanidad y el mejor irlandés desde George Best.

  James Nesbitt

  Humanidad

  "Biografía/ Citas personales". www.imdb.com.

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• I'll tell you what you can expect from an Irishman named Wellington whose father was a bookmaker. You can expect that anything he says or writes may be repeated aloud in your own home in front of your children. You can believe he was taught to love and respect all mankind, but to fear no man.

  Wellington Mara

  Children, Father, Believe

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• I was walking across King's Cross station when a drunken Irishman came stumbling up and flung his arms around me. He wanted to thank me for the peace process in Northern Ireland.

  Ann Widdecombe

  Kings, Arms, Crosses

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• Los irlandeses fusilados ocuparán ahora su lugar junto a Emmet y los mártires de Manchester en Irlanda, y junto a los héroes de Polonia y Sérbia y Bélgica en Europa; y nada en el cielo ni en la tierra podrá impedirlo.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Hero, Europe, Heaven

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• Nado en una piscina de mi propia neurosis. Llevo el amor, la pena profundamente, como un irlandés.

  Richard Harris

  Duelo, Nadar, Neurosis

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• Put an Englishman into the garden of Eden, and he would find fault with the whole blasted concern; put a Yankee in, and he would see where he could alter it to advantage; put an Irishman in, and he would want to boss the thing; put a Dutchman in, and he would proceed to plant it.

  Josh Billings

  Garden, Yankees, Eden

  "Josh Billings, Hiz Sayings". Book by Josh Billings, 1865.

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• Es raro que utilicemos nuestra facultad de pensar tan resueltamente como un irlandés su pala. Para complacer a nuestros amigos y parientes sacamos nuestro mineral de plata en carretadas, mientras descuidamos trabajar nuestras minas de oro conocidas sólo por nosotros mismos en lo alto de las Sierras, donde arrancamos un arbusto en nuestro paseo por la montaña, y vimos el reluciente tesoro. Volvamos allí. Que el precio de nuestra libertad sea darlo a conocer.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Pensar, Oro, Montaña

  Henry David Thoreau David Gross (2007). "El precio de la libertad: Political Philosophy from Thoreau's Journals", p.4, David M Gross

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• An Irishman can be worried by the consciousness that there is nothing to worry about.

  Austin O'Malley

  Worry, Ireland And The Irish, Consciousness

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• Ideally, we'd want an Irishman coming in for the job, but, ideally it doesn't really matter.

  Clinton Morrison

  Jobs, Want, Matter

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• As you know, I am neither Roman Catholic, Protestant Episcopalian, nor Presbyterian, nor am I an Irishman.

  John Bright

  Catholic, Protestants, Presbyterians

  John Bright (1869). “Speeches on Questions of Public Policy”, p.538

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• To subvert the tyranny of our execrable government, to break the connection with England, the never-failing source of all our political evils and to assert the independence of my country- these were my objectives. To unite the whole people of Ireland, to abolish the memory of all past dissensions, and to substitute the common name of Irishman in place of the denominations of Protestant, Catholic and Dissenter - these were my means.

  Tono Wolfe

  Country, Memories, Mean

  Sean Cronin, Richard Roche, Theobald Wolfe Tone (1973). “Freedom the Wolfe Tone way”

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• Todo irlandés, dice el refrán, tiene una patata en la cabeza.

  Augusto Hare

  Patatas

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