Boyle Roche Quotes
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Why should we put ourselves out of our way to do anything for posterity? For what has posterity ever done for us?
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Half the lies our opponents tell about us are untrue.
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Every pint bottle should contain a quart.
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I answer in the affirmative with an emphatic 'No.'
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...they would cut us to mincemeat, and throw our bleeding heads on that table to stare us in the face.
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While I write this letter, I have a pistol in one hand and a sword in the other.
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How can I be in two places at once, unless I were a bird?
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I hope, my lord, if you ever come within a mile of my house that you will stay there all night.
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Mr Speaker, I smell a rat; I see him forming in the air and darkening the sky; but I will nip him in the bud.
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Ireland and England are like two sisters; I would have them embrace like one brother.
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There is no Levitical decree between nations, and on this occasion I can see neither sin nor shame in marrying our own sister.
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The cup of Ireland's misery has been overflowing for centuries and is not yet half full.
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The only thing to prevent what's past is to put a stop to it before it happens.
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We should silence anyone who opposes the right to freedom of speech.
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All along the untrodden paths of the future, I can see the footprints of an unseen hand.
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It would surely be better … to give up not only a part, but, if necessary, even the whole, of our constitution, to preserve the remainder!
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The best way to avoid danger is to meet it plump.