Irish One Line Quotes & Sayings

Hate makes you stupid. — Patricia Cornwell

Jack Woltz: Now you listen to me, you smooth-talking son-of-a-bitch, let me lay it on the line for you and your boss, whoever he is! Johnny Fontane will never get that movie! I don't care how many dago guinea wop greaseball goombahs come out of the woodwork!
Tom Hagen: I'm German-Irish.
Jack Woltz: Well, let me tell you something, my kraut-mick friend, I'm gonna make so much trouble for you, you won t know what hit you!
Tom Hagen: Mr. Woltz, I'm a lawyer. I have not threatened you. — Mario Puzo

But my promoter Frank Warren knows what he is doing, and has been through this cycle many times with other fighters. — Billy Joe Saunders

You are What you do When it counts - Armor — John Steakley

Because he's better than that. Better than they are. He's young, he's good-looking, charming, efficient, smart, and skilled enough to come up with, or get someone else to come up with this e-virus that's got all you geeks stumped."
"We're not stumped," Roarke corrected with some annoyance as they rode to the bedroom. "The bleeding investigation is ongoing and we're pursuing all shagging avenues."
While it amused her to hear him quote the usual departmental line - with the addition of the Irish - she shrugged. — J.D. Robb

And common is the commonplace, And vacant chaff well meant for grain. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

Agatha Chubb, expert in ancient wizarding artefacts, has identified no fewer than twelve lead Bludgers dating from this period, discovered both in Irish peat bogs and English marshes. "They are undoubtedly Bludgers rather than cannonballs," she writes. The faint indentations of magically reinforced Beaters' bats are visible and one can see the distinctive hallmarks of manufacture by a wizard (as opposed to a Muggle) - the smoothness of line, the perfect symmetry. A final clue was the fact that each and every one of them whizzed around my study and attempted to knock me to the floor when released from its case, — J.K. Rowling

We must have faith in ourselves and our decisions, as well as trusting that we have the strength and ability to handle whatever consequences our decision may bring. Trust that whatever result your leap of faith may bring, you will gain much from it in terms of growth and learning. — Amanda Harvey

Socially, Philadelphia was still a fairly provincial city, its business community governed by the mores of the Main Line. Politically, it was a cauldron of ethnic rivalries, dominated by competing Irish and Italian constituencies. — Andrea Mitchell

He looked along the line of children, exhibits A to C of his existence and heirs to the twisted throne of his corrupt genetics. — David Louden

Over-niceness may be under-niceness. — Samuel Richardson

For dash and gallantry the bloodthirsty Scots, Australians and Canadians led the way, with the impetuous Irish close behind. The Australian to my mind were the most aggressive, and managed to keep their form in spite of their questionable discipline. Out of the line they were undoubtedly difficult to handle, but once in it they loved a fight. They were a curious mixture of toughness and sentimentality ... — Adrian Carton De Wiart

The most profound security threat we face today is global warming ... climate change has the capacity to change the way all of us live. — William J. Clinton

Brother," he wept, "my heart is being cut in two. I cannot bear it."
"Tscha!" said the Tsar of Birds. "Life is like that. — Catherynne M Valente

Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

We do not speak of clowns in this office. You know that. — Cecilia London

At times, our strengths propel us so far forward we can no longer endure our weaknesses and perish from them. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Running a school where the students all succeed, even if some students have to help others to make the grade, is good preparation for democracy. — William Glasser

Security against foreign danger is one of the primitive objects of civil society. It is an avowed and essential object of the American Union. — James Madison

A few Cobras in your home will soon clear it of Rats and Mice. Of course, you will still have the Cobras. — Will Cuppy

Overheard at O'Banion's Beer Emporium: "Pardon me, darlin', but I'm writin' a telephone book. C'n I have yer number? — Henry D. Spalding

I come from a long line of staunch Irish Catholics. — Robert Vaughn

Scarlet O'Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm as the Tarleton twins were. In her face were too sharply blended the delicate features of her mother, a Coast aristocrat of French descent, and the heavy ones of her florid Irish father. But it was an arresting face, pointed of chin, square of jaw. Her eyes were pale green without a touch of hazel, starred with bristly black lashes and slightly tilted at the ends. Above them, her thick black brows slanted upward, cutting a startling oblique line in her magnolia-white skin-that skin so prized by Southern women and so carefully guarded with bonnets, veils and mittens against hot Georgia suns. — Margaret Mitchell