#irishman

An Englishmen thinks seated; a Frenchmen standing; an American pacing, an Irishman, afterwards. ↗

— Austin O'Malley

#american #englishmen #frenchmen #irishman #pacing

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

— John Bright

#catholic #episcopalian #i #i am #irishman

Have you heard about the Irishman who reversed into a car boot sale and sold the engine? ↗

— Frank Carson

#boot #car #engine #heard #into

I'm still a proud Irishman, of course, but I've become an American citizen. I'm very, very proud of that. ↗

— Liam Neeson

#american citizen #become #citizen #course #i

But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me just the right thing for a poet. Passion! He was always on the right side. He may be wrongheaded, but his heart was always on the right side. He wrote beautiful poetry. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#beautiful #chaotic #flow #heart #his

Pain seems to be easier, or melancholy seems to be easier to portray in a character. I don't know if that's because I'm a human being or because I'm an Irishman or both. ↗

— Colin Farrell

#being #both #character #easier #human

Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to. ↗

— Shane Leslie

#another #day #every #find #goes

They have nothing in their whole imperial arsenal that can break the spirit of one Irishman who doesn't want to be broken. ↗

— Bobby Sands

#break #broken #imperial #irishman #nothing