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"Ireland sober is Ireland stiff."

James Joyce 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 James Joyce

  • "Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age."

  • "I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction."

  • "Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art it is the part the schools cannot recognize."

  • "The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts."

  • "I fear those big words which make us so unhappy."

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