Famous Quotes

"There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting."

John Millington Synge 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 John Millington Synge

• "Every article on these islands has an almost personal character, which gives this simple life, where all art is unknown, something of the artistic beauty of medieval life."

• "The general knowledge of time on the island depends, curiously enough, on the direction of the wind."

• "It is the timber of poetry that wears most surely, and there is no timber that has not strong roots among the clay and worms."