Dylan Moran Quotes

At home we're the hosts, and I never liked the idea of being embarrassed in front of our friends.

You think the Welsh are friendly, but the Irish are fabulous.

It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody.

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.

U.K. guys think it is cheesy to be nice.

Yes, but also one of the problems for a novelist in Ireland is the fact that there are no formal manners. I mean some people have beautiful manners but there's no kind of agreed form of manners.

The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth for my enemies.

Persian social manners are well known, and there is no other society that can compete with them.

People in France are very intrusive when they recognize you. In New York, they are very polite, with quick words, so it's great.

Women eat while they are talking; men talk while they are eating.

I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.

No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days.

I just think that the people who say: 'That's not true' when someone tells a story at dinner are the people who didn't get any laughs when they told their story.

The Germans and Austrians are very polite, the Swiss are very reserved and the Spanish usually kiss me. The Brits write me letters.

I have a lot of girl friends who are very adept at making friends, and guys are just not.

I think women are really good at making friends and not good at networking. Men are good at networking and not necessarily making friends. That's a gross generalization, but I think it holds in many ways.

The French are known for their rudeness … but if you speak French … they get a lot more polite.

In the U.S., women smile more than men. In the U.K., there's no difference between men and women.

There are different groups of people in your life that you behave slightly differently with. You behave one way with your family. You behave in a different way with your work colleagues. You behave differently with your friends from the movie club, your fitness instructor - all subtly different personas.

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.

I am a fun guy with my friends. I take some time to warm up to a new person.

I've been taught always be nice to the lighting people - they're the people you make friends with straight away so that's what I do.

I'm not suggesting I met a significant enough number of them to constitute a robust sample size, but I am saying that my general impression of Sri Lankans is that they are friendly, chatty and hospitable people.

If you don't wash dishes properly, you will get ill. And you will lose friends because they'll come to your house, you'll give them tea in a filthy cup, and they'll never see you again.

I have a lot of friends who come and stay, and we talk about the world.