Famous quotes containing the words irish and/or ancestry:
“The Irish are a fair people; they never speak well of one another.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)
“I am, in point of fact, a particularly haughty and exclusive person, of pre-Adamite ancestral descent. You will understand this when I tell you that I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule.”
—Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)