IRELAND

Related Subjects: England, Island

1. We Irishmen are apt to think something and nothing are near neighbors.—BISHOP BERKELEY

2. Politics is the chloroform of the Irish People, or, rather, the hashish.—O. ST. J. GOGARTY, As I Was Going Down Sackville St.
   

3. Ireland gives England her soldiers, her generals too.—GEORGE MEREDITH, Diana of the Crossways
   

4. English, Scotchmen, Jews, do well in Ireland—Irishmen never; even the patriot has to leave Ireland to get a hearing.—GEORGE MOORE, Ave
   

5. It is the plain duty of every Irishman to disassociate himself from memories of Ireland—Ireland being a fatal disease, fatal to Englishmen and doubly fatal to Irishmen.—GEORGE MOORE, Ave
   

6. They think they have pacified Ireland; think they have foreseen everything ; but the fools, the fools, the fools!—they have left us our Fenian dead, and while Ireland holds these graves, Ireland, unfree, shall never be at peace!—SEAN O'CASEY, The Plough and the Stars
   

7. Give an Irishman lager for a month, and he's a dead man. An Irishman is lined with copper, and the beer corrodes it. But whiskey polishes the copper and is the saving of him.—MARK TWAIN, Life on the Mississippi