Dublin Quotes

I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.

But one of the most fantastic things about Ireland and Dublin is that the pubs are like Paris and the cafe culture. And Dublin, in many ways, is a pub culture.

When's the last time you walked by a pub in Dublin and heard Irish music? When's the last time you ordered a coffee and heard an Irish accent?

So you need hardly spell me how every word will be bound over to carry three score and ten toptypsical readings throughout the book of Doublends Jined.

It's a big con job. We have sold the myth of Dublin as a sexy place incredibly well; because it is a dreary little dump most of the time.

When I die Dublin will be written on my heart.

I've only been to Dublin once, and I had a great time. I got completely soaked because it was rainy.

I saw Damien Rice in Dublin when I was 13, and that inspired me to want to pursue being a songwriter... I practised relentlessly and started recording my own EPs. At 16 I moved to London and played any gigs I could, selling CDs from my rucksack to fund recording the next, and it snowballed from there.

I was happy in Dublin because it is very cosmopolitan.

I go off into Dublin and two days later I'm spotted walking by the Liffey with a whole bunch of new friends.

If Blake said that, said Father Brian, he never lived in Dublin.

Can it be possible that the painters make John the Baptist a Spaniard in Madrid and an Irishman in Dublin?

Good puzzle would be cross Dublin without passing a pub.

Dublin was turning into Disneyland with super-pubs, a Purgatory open till five in the morning.

There was no doubt about it: if you wanted to succeed you had to go away. You could do nothing in Dublin.

Old Dublin City there is no doubtin' Bates every city upon the say. 'Tis there you'd hear O'Connell spoutin' And Lady Morgan making tay. For 'tis the capital of the finest nation, With charmin' pisintry upon a fruitful sod, Fightin' like devils for conciliation, And hatin' each other for the Love of God.

We in Ireland are gifted beyond most peoples with a talent for acting, and in Dublin especially, while scorning culture, which indeed we have not got, we are possessed of a most futile and diverting cleverness.

I don't think America has ever had a center the way London is the center of England or Dublin is the center of Ireland.

There's a ruthlessness to the city now that wasn't there before. I was in Dublin a few months ago, when we were shooting Breakfast on Pluto, and if I saw one kid throwing up on the street, I must have seen a hundred of them.

by the general love of scandal and detraction in Dublin, one might reasonably imagine they were all to feed themselves through the holes which they had made in the characters of others.

It's not easy making a living as a writer, and for many years I worked at a Waterstones in Dublin. It was a good environment for an aspiring writer, with lots of events and authors appearing.

Food in Dublin has gotten immeasurably better than it was. When I was a kid, there weren't a lot of options. Now you're overwhelmed with options.

Dublin City was quiet when they reached the Waxwork Museum, as if it was holding its breath.

You've just provided me with the makings of one hell of a weekend in Dublin.

My first song was about the smog over Dublin in the 1980s, so yeah, I suppose I was always socially conscious. My first song was not a love song, it was about smog.