150 Best St. Patrick’s Day Quotes and Blessings to Share with Friends and Family

St. Patrick’s Day is here! Now that March 17 is officially upon us, it’s time to pick out our best green outfit (don’t want to get pinched!), plan a special St. Patrick’s Day menu, and raise a glass of green beer. If you want to share a special St. Patrick’s Day message with friends, families, or coworkers, look no further than our list of St. Patrick’s Day quotes. There the perfect sayings to share on social media or write in a greeting card.

St. Patrick’s Day Quotes

1. “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

2. “Top of the morning to ye!”

3. “Slainte!”

4. “May your blessings outnumber the shamrocks that grow, and may trouble avoid you wherever you go.”

5. “Whether it’s St. Patrick’s Day or not, everyone has a little luck o’ the Irish in them.” —Laura Sommers

6. “Wherever you go and whatever you do, may the luck of the Irish be there with you.”

7. “Never iron a four-leaf clover, because you don’t want to press your luck.”

8. “Here’s to good Irish friends—never above you, never below you, always beside you.”

9. “May the luck of the Irish enfold you. May the blessings of Saint Patrick behold you.”

10. “There are only two classes of people—the Irish and those who wish they were Irish.” —Therese Duffy

St Patrick’s Day Sayings

• “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
• The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.” —William Butler Yeats
• “Few Americans have heard of Wales. All of them have heard of Ireland and many of them think they are Irish.” —Peter Hitchens
• “May the road rise to meet you, may the wind be always at your back.”
• “When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously tenacious.” —Edna O’Brien
• “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
• “For you can’t hear Irish tunes without knowing you’re Irish, and wanting to pound that fact into the floor.” —Jennifer Armstrong
• “If he laid on the Irish any thicker, she’d be drowning in shamrocks.” —Nallini Singh
• “I’ve always thought you’ve got to believe in luck to get it.” —Victoria Holt
• “May everything turn green today, except your gills!” —Lester B. Dill
• “May you always walk in sunshine. May you never want for more. May Irish angels rest their wings beside your nursery door.” —Susi Hawke
• “We are all a great deal luckier than we realize, we usually get what we want—or near enough.” —Roald Dahl
• “It’s simply this: the Irish kiss, a snog o’ bliss, be blessed luck from any miss.” —Richelle E. Goodrich
• “Ireland has one of the world’s heaviest rainfalls. If you see an Irishman with a tan, it’s rust.”
• “May the luck of the Irish lead to happiest heights and the highway you travel be lined with green lights.”
• “May your thoughts be as glad as the shamrocks. May your heart be as light as a song. May each day bring you bright happy hours, that stay with you all year long.”
• “I’ve always believed in luck. I love the fact that people can change their lives instantly.” —Fiona Barton
• “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
• “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
• “What is Irish diplomacy? It’s the ability to tell a man to go to Hell so that he will look forward to making the trip.”
• “It’s an Irish story, love…We don’t do happy endings.” —Kersten Hamilton
• “May the enemies of Ireland never meet a friend.”
• “The reason the Irish are always fighting each other is they have no other worthy opponents.”
• “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
• “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

Cute St. Patrick’s Day Instagram Captions

• Good as gold.
• Sláinte!
• Painting the town green!
• We’re always Dublin the fun.
• I’m clover the rainbow for you.
• Irish you were mine.
• Seeing green.
• Irish every day was St. Patrick’s Day.
• Your Galway girl forever.
• Who needs luck with friends like these!
• Eat, drink and be lucky!
• You’re the beer to my pint.
• Happy St. Paw-trick’s Day
• Irish and stylish.
• You’re pure gold.
• Luckier than a four-leaf clover.
• Irish kisses and shamrock wishes.
• Take your pick: luck or charm.
• You shamrock my world.
• Feeling a little green.
• Green beer and St. Paddy’s cheer!
• Lucky, blessed and all the rest.
• I’m not Irish, but kiss me anyway.
• Found my lucky charm!
• May not have found the pot of gold, but I still got lucky.
• Cutest clover in the patch.
• Making wishes on every four-leaf clover I find.
• If you’re lucky enough to be Irish, you’re lucky enough.
• You’re my four-leaf clover.
• Who needs luck? I have charm.
• Lucky in love is lucky enough.
• A best friend is like a four-leaf clover: hard to find and lucky to have.
• Wishing you a pot o’ gold and all the joy your heart can hold.
• Today’s lucky charm!
• What’s your four-leaf clover?
• Not all pots of gold are under rainbows.

Funny St. Patrick’s Day Captions

• Kilt-y as charged.
• A pitcher is worth a thousand words.
• You raise the bar.
• Yeah, we’re cute. Get clover it.
• The jig is up!
• If it ain’t brogue, don’t fix it.
• Keep calm and leprechaun.
• Sip, sip, hooray!
• Not your average lucky charm.
• That last dance was a jig mistake.
• The leprechauns made me do it.
• Magically delicious!
• It’s easy being green today.
• Who needs luck when you have plenty of charm?
• Shenanigans Squad.
• Warning: May cause shenanigans and malarky.
• Can’t pinch this.
• Zero lucks given.
• Like this pic for good luck.
• I can’t wait to press my luck.
• Never iron a four-leaf clover because you don’t want to press your luck.
• It’s me. I’m the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
• You bet I’m stirring the pot (of gold) today.
• This is the only green shirt I have.
• I pinch back.
• Ready to (sham)rock!
• Don’t worry, beer happy.
• We love to paddy.
• Irish today, hungover tomorrow.
• Shamrockin’ and rollin’.
• Looking pitcher-perfect in green.
• It’s a brew-tiful day.
• The paddy don’t start till I walk in.
• Irish you a happy St. Patrick’s Day!
• Take a pitcher, it’ll last longer.
• I’m not Irish, but my coffee is.
• Shake your shamrocks.
• Oh my Guinness!
• Irish you were beer.
• Chase your dreams, not your whiskey.

St. Patrick’s Day Instagram Captions Inspired by Songs

• “I’m lucky in love. Yes, I’ve got the winning touch.” — Mick Jagger
• “In the lilt of Irish laughter, you can hear the angels sing.” — Bing Crosby
• “If you could drink dreams like Irish streams then the world would be as high as the mountain of morn.” — John Lennon & Yoko Ono
• “And my one wish has been that someday I may win the heart of my wild Irish rose.” — Chauncey Olcott
• “You’re my lucky charm, my guiding star.” — Marvin Gaye
• “Some hearts just get lucky sometimes.” — Carrie Underwood
• “She played the fiddle in an Irish band, but she fell in love with an English man.” — Ed Sheeran
• “No, I’m not lucky. I’m blessed, yes.” — Nicki Minaj
• “And they’ll tell you now, you’re the lucky one.” — Taylor Swift
• “In Dublin’s fair city where the girls are so pretty.” — The Dubliners
• “We’ll call it an Irish Pub.” — The Rumjacks
• “I call it magic when I’m with you.” — Coldplay
• “They call you lady luck.” — Frank Sinatra
• “Show a little faith, there’s magic in the night.” — Bruce Springsteen
• “If I found a lucky penny, I’d toss it across the bay. Your love is worth all the gold on earth.” — Elvis Presley
• “Something special happened today. I got green lights all the way.” — Aloe Blacc
• “Lucky to have been where I have been.” — Jason Mraz & Colbie Caillat
• “I feel lucky. Think I’ll flip a coin, I’m a winner either way.” — Mary Chapin Carpenter
• “You may be my lucky star, but I’m the luckiest by far.” — Madonna
• “Could it be that you and me are the lucky ones?” — Lana Del Rey
• “O Danny Boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling.” — Gentri
• “When it comes to luck, you make your own.”— Bruce Springsteen

St. Patrick’s Day Captions Inspired by Quotes

• “Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy.” — Fiona Shaw
• “The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.” — Dolly Parton
• “You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.” — Cormac McCarthy, ‘No Country for Old Men’
• “Love is the only gold.” — Lord Alfred Tennyson
• “St. Patrick’s Day is all about being Irish and celebrating life as only the Irish know how.” — Anthony T. Hincks
• “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
• “For the whole world is Irish on the seventeenth o’ March!” — Thomas Augustine Daly
• “You can make a man of Ireland, but you can’t take the Irishness out of the man.” —Tyson Fury
• “A good friend is like a four-leaf clover — hard to find, lucky to have.” — Irish Proverb
• “Yeah, it’s St. Paddy’s Day. Everyone’s Irish tonight. ” — The Boondock Saints (1999)
• “Well, I’m a leprechaun so don’t be telling me about rainbows!” — The Luck of The Irish (2001)
• “Luck is believing you’re lucky.” — Tennessee Williams
• “If you’re Irish, it doesn’t matter where you go — you’ll find family.” — Victoria Smurfit
• “I say luck is when an opportunity comes along and you’re prepared for it.” — Denzel Washington
• “Ireland is a land of poets and legends, of dreamers and rebels. All of these have music woven through and around them. Tunes for dancing or for weeping, for battle or for love.” — Nora Roberts
• “The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.” — Douglas MacArthur
• “Here’s the thing about luck… you don’t know if it’s good or bad until you have some perspective.” — Alice Hoffman
• “The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.” — Barbara Sher
• “A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.” — President James A. Garfield
• “If you have two friends in your lifetime, you’re lucky. If you have one good friend, you’re more than lucky.” — S. E. Hinton
• “Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.” — Seneca

St. Patrick’s Day Captions Inspired by Blessings

• “May good luck be your friend in whatever you do, and may trouble be always a stranger to you.”
• “May love and laughter light your days and warm your heart and home.”
• “May the road rise to meet you, may the wind be always at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields.”
• “May the roof above us never fall in, and may the friends gathered below it never fall out.”
• “May you live long, die happy and rate a mansion in heaven.”
• “Wishing you a rainbow for sunlight after showers — miles and miles of Irish smiles for golden happy hours.”
• “May your troubles be less, your blessings be more, and nothing but happiness come through your door.”
• “For each petal on the shamrock, this brings a wish your way: Good health, good luck, and happiness for today and every day.”
• “May your blessings outnumber the shamrocks that grow, and may trouble avoid you wherever you go.”
• “Wherever you go, whatever you do, may the luck of the Irish be there with you!”
• “May your day be touched by a bit of Irish luck, brightened by a song in your heart, and warmed by the smiles of the people you love.”
• “May your pockets be heavy and your heart be light. May good luck pursue you each morning and night.”
• “May the sound of happy music and the lilt of Irish laughter fill your heart with gladness that stays forever after.”
• “May the hinges of our friendship never grow rusty, and our ale never turn musty.”
• “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.”
• “May you live as long as you want, and never want as long as you live.”