Irish Humor Quotes

Trash talk? Smack talk? This is an American term that makes me laugh. I simply speak the truth. I'm an Irish man.

When I die, I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin. I wonder would they know it was me?

Oh, all kinds of lunacy happens in Ireland, all kinds of lunacy.

[On the Irish:] Strange race ... Don't know what they want, but want it like the devil.

What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.

Two Irishmen were passing a pub - well, it could happen.

An Englishman, Irishman and Scotsman were invited to a Christmas party. The Englishman brought a bag of tinsel, the Scotsman brought a bag of holly and they asked the Irishman: "What have you brought?" He said: "I brought a pair of knickers." They asked: "What has that got to do with Christmas?" He said "They're Carol's."

Tommy Tiernan is an Irish comic who I believe is one of the finest in the world.

The Irishman in English literature may be said to have been born with an apology in his mouth.

There's a real mischievousness about Irishmen, don't you find?

I'm Irish, so I'm messing all the time. Which means, I'm having a laugh. I'm always making jokes.

With Irish drama, things are told with humor.

There was an Irish space program to go to the sun. They went at night so they didn't get burnt.

The Irish Six Million Dollar man only cost three quid.

I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way: by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could.

Show me an Irishman who can't tell a story - I don't think they exist.

There were two Irishmen eating sandwiches in a pub and the landlord said: "You can't eat your own food in here." So they swapped sandwiches.

The Irish gave the bagpipes to the Scotts as a joke, but the Scotts haven't seen the joke yet.

Many people die of thirst but the Irish are born with one.

I knew lots of Irish ladies in my life who would say daft things and then would just say something incredibly truthful in a very simple way with simple language - a few well chosen words that would take an intellectual five minutes to express. I like that.

That's the Irish all over -- they treat a joke as a serious thing and a serious thing as a joke.

God created whiskey to keep the Irish from taking over the world.

Father Ted' would be impossible to remake it in America. The whole situation of being Irish and being a priest in Ireland is so different than anything else in America.

The Irish and British, they love satire, it's a large part of the culture.

Father Ted' was written by Irish people, so that was fine, but around the time we were shooting it 'EastEnders' went to Ireland and represented it as this terribly backward society where people were going around with one eye and drunk.