Ireland quotes
31 ireland quotes, film quotes, movie lines, taglines- From the movie: The Commitments
“The Irish are the blacks of Europe. And Dubliners are the blacks of Ireland. And the Northside Dubliners are the blacks of Dublin.”
- From the movie: Green Book
“- Orange Bird Bartender: Are you a cop?
- Tony Lip: Do I look Irish?” - From the movie: The Guard
“I'm Irish. Racism is part of my culture.”
- From the movie: Captain Phillips
“- Captain Richard Phillips: There's gotta be something other than being a fisherman and kidnapping people.
- Muse: Maybe in America, Irish. Maybe in America.” - From the movie: After the Sunset
“You know it is summer in Ireland when the rain gets warmer.”
- La trovi in Actors in real life
“My mother was Irish and she was superstitious, if you'll forgive the tautology.”
- From the movie: The Matchmaker
“- Marcy Tizard: Go back to your wife!
- Sean Kelly: My ex-wife. We're going through with the divorce.
- Marcy Tizard: They don't have divorce in Ireland.
- Sean Kelly: They do. It just got in.” - From the movie: 25th Hour
“I'm Irish. I can't get drunk.”
“Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy.”
“Dublin people think they are the center of the world and the center of Ireland. And they don't realize that people have to leave Ireland to get work.”
- From the movie: Into the West
“- Ossie: Was the Old Wild West in Ireland?
- Papa Reilly: There still is. On the other side of the mountains.
- Ossie: Were the travellers the Indians?
- Papa Reilly: No. We're the cowboys.” - From the movie: Topsy-Turvy
“- Fanny Ronalds: Lady Colin is irresistible. She cannot conceive why the Irish are starving when there's lots of good fish in the sea.
- Arthur Sullivan: She most probably has a point.” - From the movie: Circle of Friends
“When all this started, all our families have lived in Knockglen for as long as anybody could remember. And in Ireland people have very long memories.”
- From the movie: Michael Collins
“The Irish people established the Irish Republic. It can only be disestablished by the Irish people.”
- From the movie: Crossfire Trail
“God invented the whiskey to keep the Irish from ruling the world.”
- From the movie: Crossfire Trail
A Frenchman, a German, and an Irishman go into a saloon and order whiskeys. The drinks arrive and there's a fly in each one. The Frenchman says, "Mon dieu! I can't drink this" The German flicks the fly out of the whiskey and drinks it down. The Irishman grabs the fly. He turns it upside down and he says, "Spit it out! Spit it out!".
- From the movie: Gaudi Afternoon
“I'm sorry, being Irish you must not be used to talking about bisexuals, let alone transvestities.”
- From the movie: The Rules of Attraction
“Irish women are as small as leprechauns.”
- From the movie: Basquiat
“Fuck Hawaii. Let's go to Ireland. We'll stop in every bar and have a drink.”
- From the movie: Michael Collins
“The problem with the Irish is that they'll sing at the drop of a hat, but ask them to talk and they won't.”
- From the movie: Angela's Ashes
“When I look back on my childhood, I wonder how my brothers and I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood. The happy childhood is hardly worth telling. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood. And worse still is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood.”
- From the movie: Far and Away
- From the movie: Angela's Ashes
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