Celebrate the spirit of Ireland with our handpicked collection of St Patricks Day quotes that bring joy, laughter, and blessings to this festive occasion. Whether you’re looking for meaningful sayings about luck, friendship, or happiness, these quotes capture the charm of Irish traditions.
Perfect for sharing with friends, adding to greeting cards, or posting on social media, St Patricks Day quotes spread positivity and festive cheer everywhere.
From inspiring words to funny one-liners, let these quotes brighten your celebrations and remind you of the beauty of Irish culture and the joy of togetherness.
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Today St Patricks Day Quotes ideas
“May you always walk in sunshine. May you never want for more. May Irish angels rest their wings beside your nursery door.” — Susi Hawke
“The true harvest of my life is intangible — a little star dust caught, a portion of the rainbow I have clutched.” — Henry David Thoreau
“It’s delightful how celebrating a heritage requires you to pick fights with strangers and then pee in a parking garage.” — Greg Gutfeld
“Slave, bishop and saint—it’s fair to say that the man we call Patrick had an unusual life.” — Marian Broderick
“Ireland has one of the world’s heaviest rainfalls. If you see an Irishman with a tan, it’s rust.” — Dave Allen
“We may have bad weather in Ireland, but the sun shines in the hearts of the people and that keeps us all warm.” — Marianne Williamson
“One thought of the shamrock makes the whole world akin.” — Irish saying
“If you work, if you wait, you will find the place where the four-leaf clovers grow.” — Ella Higginson
“For the whole world is Irish on the seventeenth o’ March!” — Thomas Augustine Daly
“The reason so many people never get anywhere in life is because when opportunity knocks, they are out in the backyard looking for four-leaf clovers.” ― Walter P. Chrysler
“Yeah, it’s St. Paddy’s Day. Everyone’s Irish tonight.” — Norman Reedus
“The heart of an Irishman is nothing but his imagination.” — George Bernard Shaw
“The one thing us Irish have is the ability to laugh at ourselves. God bless us all.” — Ann Kennedy
“The shamrock is a religious symbol. St. Patrick said the leaves represented the trinity: the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. That’s why four leaf clovers are so lucky, you get a bonus Jesus.” — Stephen Colbert
“Here’s to you and here’s to me, I pray that friends we’ll always be, but if by chance we disagree, the heck with you and here’s to me.” — Irish toast
“To be Irish is to know that in the end, the world will break your heart.” — Daniel Patrick Moynihan
“May God bless and keep in good health your enemies’ enemies.” — Irish saying
“Fairies in Ireland are sometimes as big as we are, sometimes bigger, and sometimes, as I have been told, about three feet high.” — William Butler Yeats
“There is no luck except where there is discipline.” — Irish proverb
“Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar and fat.” — Alex Levine
Happy St Patty’s Day Quotes
“St. Patrick’s Day is an enchanted time—a day to begin transforming winter’s dreams into summer’s magic.” — Adrienne Cook
“Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough.” — Mark Twain
“If you’re enough lucky to be Irish, you’re lucky enough!” — Irish saying
“Whether it’s St. Patrick’s Day or not, everyone has a little luck o’ the Irish in them.” — Laura Sommers
“Lucky is believing you’re lucky.” — Tennessee Williams
“If you’ve ever been to Ireland for St. Patrick’s Day, it’s sexy there. I mean, St. Patrick is the saint of getting it on.” — Will Ferrell
“A good friend is like a four-leaf clover, hard to find and lucky to have.” — Irish proverb
“You gotta try your luck at least once a day, because you could be going around lucky all day and not even know it.” — Jimmy Dean
“Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca
“Tomorrow, I will celebrate St. Patrick’s Day as I always do: by drinking until ‘Finnegan’s Wake’ makes sense.” — Stephen Colbert
“The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.” — Wilson Mizner
“You’ve got to think lucky. If you fall into a mud hole, check your back pocket. You might have caught a fish.” — Darrell Royal
“The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.” — Douglas MacArthur
“If you’re Irish, it doesn’t matter where you go — you’ll find family.” — Victoria Smurfit
“Luck is great, but most of life is hard work.” — Iain Duncan Smith
“When it comes to luck, you make your own.” — Bruce Springsteen
“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?” — Lara Flynn Boyle
“They say there are only two kinds of people on St. Patrick’s Day: the Irish, and the people that drive them home.” — Conan O’Brien
“I’m of Ireland, and I’ll stay in Ireland until I die.” — Tom Cruise
“It’s an Irish story, love…We don’t do happy endings.” — Kersten Hamilton
Cute St Patricks Day Quotes
“Whether I drink often or just once in a whole; I’m always sure to raise a glass to the dear old Emerald Isle.” — Pat Maloney
“Irish History Fact: We invented whiskey, sarcasm & bare knuckle brawling. All on the same night. In that order.” — Denis Leary
“Be still and know that I am. Be still and know. Be still. Be.” — St. Patrick
“It’s not that the Irish are cynical. It’s rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody.” — Brendan Behan
“May the hinges of our friendship never grow rusty.” — Irish Blessing
“I adore the St. Patrick’s Day tradition of fighting your whole family on the front lawn after sundown.” — Ryan Reynolds
“The lights of Dublin, they shine like gold, a place where stories are timelessly told.” — The High Kings
“A wish for a kiss on St. Patrick’s Day! Catch a leprechaun but don’t let him run. Nay, kiss him right away!” — Richelle E. Goodrich
“Ireland, I am coming home / I can see your rolling fields of green and fences made of stone.” — Celtic Thunder
“Most Irish Americans feel the same way about St. Patrick’s Day that Italian Americans feel about Jersey Shore.” — Jim Gaffigan
“Take me to Ireland, where the fields and the rivers are free, where the mountains kiss the sky, and the music’s calling me.” — Gaelic Storm
“I’ve always believed in luck. I love the fact that people can change their lives instantly.” — Fiona Barton
“May the blessings of each day be the blessings you need most.” — Irish Blessing
“When good luck knocks at the door, let him in and keep him there.” — Miguel de Cervantes
“May you live as long as you want, and never want as long as you live.” — Irish Blessing
“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.” — Cormac McCarthy
“May the road rise up to meet you. May the wind be always at your back.” — Traditional Irish Blessing
“Curse this well that me soul shall dwell, till I find me magic that breaks me spell.” — Leprechaun
“May your pockets be heavy and your heart be light, may good luck pursue you each morning and night.” — Irish Blessing
“Luck is not chance, it’s toil. Fortune’s expensive smile is earned.” — Emily Dickinson
St Patrick’s Day Sayings
“I see the world through Irish eyes, and they are smiling.” — Denise Morrison
“When I see a rainbow, I know that someone, somewhere loves me.” — Anthony T. Hincks
“St. Patrick’s Day is a day to celebrate our green heritage.” — Anthony T. Hicks
“It’s simply this: the Irish kiss, a snog o’ bliss, be blessed luck from any miss.” — Richelle E. Goodrich
“I have noticed that timing and luck sometimes line up in such a way that you can catch a break.” — Ellie Kemper
“I’m looking for someone to share in an adventure … ” — J.R.R. Tolkien
“May your blessings outnumber the shamrocks that grow, and may trouble avoid you wherever you go.” — Irish Blessing
“We are all a great deal luckier than we realize, we usually get what we want—or near enough.” — Roald Dahl
“May the luck of the Irish be with you!” — Common Saying
“Luck be a lady tonight.” — Frank Sinatra
“May the joys of today be those of tomorrow.” — Irish Blessing
“That’s right, there’s free beer in Irish paradise. Everyone’s jealous.” — Kevin Hearne
“May the Irish hills caress you.” — Irish Blessing
“Ireland, once you live there, you’re seduced by it.” — Frank McCourt
“May your blessings be many and your troubles be few.” — Irish Blessing
“May everything turn green today, except your gills!” — Lester B. Dill
“May your pockets be heavy and your heart be light, may good luck pursue you each morning and night.” — Irish Blessing
“You can take a man out of Ireland, but you can’t take the Irishness out of the man.” — Tyson Fury
“May the roof above us never fall in, and may we friends beneath it never fall out.” — Irish Toast
“I’ve always thought you’ve got to believe in luck to get it.” — Victoria Holt
Quote by St Patrick
“May the blessings of each day be the blessings you need most.” — Irish Blessing
“May love and laughter light your days.” — Irish Blessing
“May you live as long as you want, and never want as long as you live.” — Irish Toast
“If he laid on the Irish any thicker, she’d be drowning in shamrocks.” — Nallini Singh
“May your heart be light and happy, may your smile be big and wide, and may your pockets always have a coin or two inside.” — Irish Proverb
“May your home always be too small to hold all your friends.” — Irish Blessing
“May your blessings outnumber the shamrocks that grow.” — Irish Blessing
“For you can’t hear Irish tunes without knowing you’re Irish, and wanting to pound that fact into the floor.” — Jennifer Armstrong
“May your thoughts be as glad as the shamrocks.” — Traditional Irish Saying
“May your troubles be less and your blessings be more. And nothing but happiness come through your door.” — Irish Blessing
“We survive. We’re Irish. We have the souls of poets. We love our misery, we delight in the beauty of strange places and dark places in our hearts.” — Ellis Flynn
“May good luck be your friend in whatever you do, and may trouble be always a stranger to you.” — Irish Blessing
“Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.” — Pope John Paul II
“For each petal on the shamrock, this brings a wish your way. Good health, good luck, and happiness, for today and every day.” — Irish Blessing
“When you make a wee wish on a green four-leafed clover, may your belly stay full and your cup runneth over.” — Richelle E. Goodrich
“May the lilt of Irish laughter lighten every load. May the mist of Irish magic shorten every road.” — Irish Blessing
“When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously tenacious.” — Edna O’Brien
“Don’t turn around. Don’t look back. Keep moving forward. Keep pushing. The pot of gold is at the end of the rainbow, not the beginning.” ― Ziad K. Abdelnour
“Few Americans have heard of Wales. All of them have heard of Ireland and many of them think they are Irish.” — Peter Hitchens
“If you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.” — Dolly Parton
Hilarious St Patty’s Day Quotes
“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.” — William Butler Yeats
“Curse this well that me soul shall dwell, till I find me magic that breaks me spell.” — Leprechaun
“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.” — Richelle E. Goodrich
“Never make an excuse for going to the pub, save it for leaving.” — Benny Bellamacina
“Shamrocks and roses in an evergreen flock, now up to your noses turning into a high stock!” — Ana Claudia Antunes
“Ireland is where strange tales begin and happy endings are possible.” — Charles Haughey
“May the hinges of friendship never rust.” — Edward Ramsey
“O Ireland, isn’t it grand you look — Like a bride in her rich adornin’? And with all the pent-up love of my heart, I bid you the top o’ the mornin’!” — John Locke
“There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting.” — John Millington Synge
“I seek a four-leaf shamrock in all the fairy dells, And if I find the charmed leaves, Oh how I’ll weave my spells!” — Samuel Lover
“Love is the only gold.” — Alfred Lord Tennyson
“At the end of the rainbow waited the pot of gold.” — V.C. Andrews
“Be sure to wear green on March seventeen, or else Irish leprechauns pinch your bones clean!” — Richelle E. Goodrich
“Every St. Patrick’s Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.” — Shane Leslie
“St. Patrick’s Day is all about being Irish and celebrating life as only the Irish know how.” — Anthony Hincks
“I think being a woman is like being Irish… Everyone says you’re important and nice, but you take second place all the time.” — Iris Murdoch
“Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.” — Tennessee Williams
“That’s what the prom is—St. Patrick’s Day for the young.” — Tim Tharp
“When the jig is up, there is no need for additional dancing.” — Earl Derr Biggers
“Do you think anybody knows that I’m Irish?” — Niall Horan
St Patrick’s Day Wishes
“There is no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.” — Karen Black
“Ireland has always been the home of the dreamer, the poet and the storyteller.” — Jordan Richard
“Beer makes you feel the way you ought to feel without beer.” — Henry Lawson
“The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad / For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad.” — G.K. Chesterton
“There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t met yet.” — William Butler Yeats
“Being Irish is very much a part of who I am. I take it everywhere with me.” — Colin Farrell
“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.” — Oscar Wilde
“Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.” — William Butler Yeats
“Gold is money. Everything else is credit.” — J.P. Morgan
“I will tell you, my body immediately responds to being in Ireland because every single cell in my body says yes.” — Conan O’Brien
“Diligence is the mother of good luck.” — Benjamin Franklin
“The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.” — Barbara Sher
“Many people die of thirst but the Irish are born with one.” — Terence Alan
“Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy.” — Fiona Shaw
“I give you my love & my luck. Don’t throw either away.” — Kelly Moran
“Luck is believing you’re lucky.” — Tennessee Williams
“Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune’s bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all.” — John Greenleaf Whittier
“I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.” — Thomas Jefferson
“Ireland, sir, for good or evil, is like no other place under heaven.” — George Bernard Shaw
“Ireland is a land of poets and legends, of dreamers and rebels.” — Nora Robert
“I am covered with the soft, grey fog of the Emerald Isle.” — Frederick Douglas
“There are only two classes of people—the Irish and those who wish they were Irish.” — Therese Duffy
“That happy place, the green groves of the dwelling of the blest.” — Virgil
“There’s no sense to being Irish unless you know the world’s going to break your heart.” — Thomas Adcock
“All that matters is that you beat the leprechauns.” — Stewie
“Everybody is Irish on St. Patrick’s Day, but if your name is Eisenhower, you’ve got to wear something green to show it.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower
“Look up to the sky. You’ll never find rainbows if you’re looking down.” — Charlie Chaplin
“Have but luck, and you will have the rest.” — Victor Hugo
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