Famous Quotes

"A lot of Irish people perform. They perform in drawing rooms. They sing songs and they play piano."

Fiona Shaw on Saintpatricksday

More quotes about Saintpatricksday

• "We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English."

  Winston Churchill on Saintpatricksday

• "Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy."

  William Butler Yeats on Saintpatricksday

• "Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it."

  Pope John Paul II on Saintpatricksday

• "If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks."

  Brendan Behan on Saintpatricksday

• "Being Irish is very much a part of who I am. I take it everywhere with me."

  Colin Farrell on Saintpatricksday

More quotes by Fiona Shaw

• "To be honest I live among the English and have always found them to be very honest in their business dealings. They are noble, hard-working and anxious to do the right thing. But joy eludes them, they lack the joy that the Irish have."

• "I'm not on the run from anything and I'm not at all clear about what I'm running towards. But as some great writer put it, I want to be certain that when I arrive at death, I'm totally exhausted."

• "Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy."

• "There once was a demographic survey done to determine if money was connected to happiness and Ireland was the only place where this did not turn out to be true."

• "I think America becomes more disgruntled by going to the movies and having an endlessly good time at them."