| Author | Quote | Rank |
|---|
| Oliver Goldsmith | I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.  | 101 |
| John O'Donohue | A blessing is a circle of light drawn around a person to protect, heal and strengthen. | 101 |
| Victoria Smurfit | If you're Irish, it doesn't matter where you go - you'll find family. | 101 |
| Shane Leslie | Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to. | 101 |
| John O'Donohue | The joyful heart sees and reads the world with a sense of freedom and graciousness. | 102 |
| C. S. Lewis | I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else. | 103 |
| Brendan Behan | If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks. | 103 |
| Colin Farrell | Being Irish is very much a part of who I am. I take it everywhere with me. | 103 |
| Kenneth Branagh | Being Irish, I always had this love of words. | 103 |
| Reba McEntire | To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funny bone. | 103 |
| Brian Dennehy | I come from an Irish Catholic family, and hell-raising is part of the DNA. | 103 |
| Joseph Brodsky | Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family. | 103 |
| Lara Flynn Boyle | That's what the holidays are for - for one person to tell the stories and another to dispute them. Isn't that the Irish way? | 103 |
| Darrell Royal | You've got to think lucky. If you fall into a mudhole, check your back pocket - you might have caught a fish. | 104 |
| Jimmy Dean | You gotta try your luck at least once a day, because you could be going around lucky all day and not even know it. | 104 |
| Thomas Moore | Fond memory brings the light of other days around me. | 104 |
| James McGreevey | I try to be grateful for the abundance of the blessings that I have, for the journey that I'm on and to relish each day as a gift. | 104 |
| John Boyle O'Reilly | Be true to your work, your word, and your friend. | 104 |
| George William Russell | Our hearts were drunk with a beauty Our eyes could never see. | 105 |
| Saint Patrick | Christ beside me, Christ before me, Christ behind me, Christ within me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me. | 106 |
| William Butler Yeats | Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends. | 107 |
| Anne Enright | I was raised in a very old fashioned Ireland where women were reared to be lovely. | 107 |
| Socrates | Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us. | 108 |
| Tennessee Williams | Luck is believing you're lucky. | 110 |
| John Millington Synge | There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting. | 110 |
| Maureen O'Hara | Above all else, deep in my soul, I'm a tough Irishwoman. | 112 |
| Denzel Washington | I say luck is when an opportunity comes along and you're prepared for it. | 117 |
| Pope John Paul II | Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it. | 123 |
| William Butler Yeats | Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy. | 123 |
| Dave Barry | Geographically, Ireland is a medium-sized rural island that is slowly but steadily being consumed by sheep. | 304 |
| Winston Churchill | We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English. | 315 |
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