Share These Fun and Spirited St. Patrick's Day Quotes With Friends and Family
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It's impossible to not have fun on St. Patrick's Day—those green outfits, decadent Irish foods, and day-long celebrations will bring out the best of us each and every year! Add an Irish cocktail (or two) and throw in a holiday parade, and we're going full on leprechaun mode. Another way to help keep this good energy going is by reading this list of St. Patrick's Day quotes. Whether you're looking for the perfect words to describe your St. Patrick's Day Instagram post or simply want to send a delightful Irish blessing to a friend, these words capture the essence perfectly. And, they're sure to help you remember the true meaning of the holiday.
There are a number of wise Irish sayings to choose from, like, "May your blessings outnumber the shamrocks that grow. And may trouble avoid you wherever you go," or, "May the best day of your past be the worst day of your future." But there are also some more lighthearted options on the list (and even a few traditional Irish song lyrics!). Take Morgan Llywelyn's tongue-in-cheek words about her Irish heritage, for instance: "I'm Irish! When I feel well I feel better than anyone, when I am in pain I yell at the top of my lungs, and when I am dead I shall be deader than anybody." There's really no better way to welcome the holiday.
Norman Reedus, ‘The Boondock Saints’
“Yeah, it's St. Paddy's Day. Everyone's Irish tonight.”
Lady Gregory
“I feel more and more the time wasted that is not spent in Ireland.”
Therese Duffy
“There are only two classes of people — the Irish and those who wish they were Irish.”
St. Patrick
“In a single day I have said as many as a hundred prayers, and in the night almost as many.”
Denise Morrison
“I see the world through Irish eyes, and they are smiling.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower
"Everybody is Irish on St. Patrick's Day, but if your name is Eisenhower, you've got to wear something green to show it."
Edna O'Brien
"When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously tenacious."
Laura Sommers
"Whether it's St. Patrick's Day or not, everyone has a little luck o' the Irish in them."
Richelle E. Goodrich
"When you make a wee wish on a green four-leafed clover, may your belly stay full and your cup runneth over."
G.K. Chesterton
"The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made made / For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad."
Nallini Singh
"If he laid on the Irish any thicker, she'd be drowning in shamrocks."
Tim Tharp
"That's what the prom is—St. Patrick's Day for the young."
Susi Hawke
"May you always walk in sunshine. May you never want for more. May Irish angels rest their wings beside your nursery door."
Ana Claudia Antunes
"Shamrocks and roses in an evergreen flock, now up to your noses turning into a high stock!"
Richelle E. Goodrich
"It's simply this: the Irish kiss, a snog o' bliss, be blessed luck from any miss."
Richelle E. Goodrich
“You don’t believe in magic spells or longings coming true. Yet, head-to-toe you dress in green on Patty’s Day, you do.”
Emily Dickinson
“Luck is not chance, it's toil. Fortune’s expensive smile is earned.”
William Butler Yeats
“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.”
Cormac McCarthy
“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.”
Peter Hitchens
“Few Americans have heard of Wales. All of them have heard of Ireland and many of them think they are Irish.”
William Butler Yeats
“Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.”
John Millington Synge
“There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting.”
Thomas Jefferson
“I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.”
Ellis Flynn
“We survive. We're Irish. We have the souls of poets.”
Jordan Richard
“Ireland has always been the home of the dreamer, the poet and the storyteller.”
Lester B. Dill
“May everything turn green today, except your gills!”
Niall Horan
“Do you think anybody knows that I'm Irish?”
Roald Dahl
“We are all a great deal luckier than we realize, we usually get what we want— or near enough.”
Richelle E. Goodrich
“Be sure to wear green on March seventeen, or else Irish leprechauns pinch your bones clean!”
Fiona Barton
“I’ve always believed in luck. I love the fact that people can change their lives instantly.”
Marianne Williamson
"We may have bad weather in Ireland, but the sun shines in the hearts of the people and that keeps us all warm."
Wilson Mizner
"The only sure thing about luck is that it will change."
Ellie Kemper
"I have noticed that timing and luck sometimes line up in such a way that you can catch a break."
Saoirse Ronan, 'Brooklyn'
"I wish that I could stop feeling that I want to be an Irish girl in Ireland."
Irish Blessing
"May you have all the happiness and luck that life can hold—and at the end of your rainbows may you find a pot of gold."
Irish Blessing
"May the lilt of Irish laughter lighten every load."
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."
Irish Proverb
"Never iron a four-leaf clover, because you don't want to press your luck."
Irish Greeting
"Top o' the morning to ya!"
Tom Cruise, 'Far and Away'
"I'm of Ireland, and I'll stay in Ireland until I die."
Irish Blessing
"A wish that every day for you will be happy from the start and may you always have good luck and a song within your heart."
Frank McCourt
"Ireland... Once you live there, you're seduced by it."
Kevin Hearne
"That's right, there's free beer in Irish paradise. Everyone's jealous."
Barbara Sher
"The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act."
Nora Roberts
"Ireland is a land of poets and legends, of dreamers and rebels."
Tyson Fury
"You can take a man of Ireland, but you can't take out the Irishness of the man."
Douglas McArthur
"The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself."
Adrienne Cook
"St. Patrick's Day is an enchanted time—a day to begin transforming winter's dreams into summer's magic."
Conan O'Brien
"I will tell you, my body immediately responds to being in Ireland because every single cell in my body says yes."
Irish Blessing
"May the roof above us never fall in. And may the friends fathered below it never fall out."
Irish Toast
"There are good ships and there are wood ships, the ships that sail the sea. But the best ships are friendships, and may they ever be."
Jennifer Armstrong
"For you can't hear Irish tunes without knowing you're Irish, and wanting to pound that fact into the floor."
Ella Higginson
"If you work, if you wait, you will find the place where the four-leaf clovers grow."
Therese Duffy
"The Irish celebrate St. Patrick's Day in gratitude for the service which he did them in bringing to the Irish their most priceless possession—the gift of faith."
Irish Blessing
"May your blessings outnumber the shamrocks that grow. And may trouble avoid you wherever you go."
John Pentland Mahaffy
"In Ireland the inevitable never happens and the unexpected constantly occurs."
William Howard Taft
"If this humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain."
Charles M. Madigan
"St. Patrick—one of the few saints whose feast day presents the opportunity to get determinedly whacked and make a fool of oneself all under the guise of acting Irish."
Gerald Kersh
"When Irish eyes are smiling, watch your step."
Edward Lysaght
"O, love is the soul of a true Irishman; he loves all that's lovely, loves all that he can, with his sprig of shillelagh and shamrock so green."
Fiona Shaw
"Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy."
Stanislaw Lern
"If a man who cannot count finds a four leaf clover, is he lucky?"
Holly, 'P.S. I Love You'
"Why can't I be the cute, carefree Irish guy who sings all the time?"
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?"
Spike Milligan
"Many people die of thirst but the Irish are born with one."
Shane Leslie
"Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to."
Tim O'Brien
"Don't throw away luck on little stuff. Save it up."
Eamon de Valera
"Whenever I want to know what the Irish are thinking, I look into my own heart."
Stephen Gwynn
"The list of Irish saints is past counting; but in it all no other figure is so human, friendly, and lovable as St. Patrick."
Colin Farrell
"Being Irish is very much a part of who I am. I take it everywhere with me."
Pope John Paul II
"Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it."
Thomas Augustine Daly
"For the whole world is Irish on the Seventeenth o' March!"
Tennessee Williams
"Luck is believing you're lucky."
Richelle Goodrich
"Imagine if we were all magical leprechauns, and every wish ever made on a four-leaf clover obliged us to help others obtain their wishes. Now imagine if people simply lived like this were true."
Victoria Smurfit
"If you're Irish, it doesn't matter where you go—you'll find family."
Anthony T. Hicks
"St. Patrick's Day is a day to celebrate our green heritage. The ancestry of Ireland. It is a day to celebrate what it means to be Irish and of Irish descent."
Victoria Holt
"I've always thought you've got to believe in luck to get it."
St. Patrick
"Be still and know that I am. Be still and know. Be still. Be."
Pat Maloney
"Whether I drink often or just once in a while; I'm always sure to raise a glass to the dear old Emerald Isle."
Morgan Llywelyn
"I'm Irish! When I feel well I feel better than anyone, when I am in pain I yell at the top of my lungs, and when I am dead I shall be deader than anybody."
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