“Who is Fox?", I asked. "Policeman Fox is the third of us," said the Sergeant, "but we never see him or hear tell of him at because he is always on his beat and never off it and he signs… — Flann O'Brien Copy Share Image
“I discovered that everything you do is in response to a request or a suggestion made to you by some other party either inside… — Flann O'Brien Copy Share Image
Moderation, we find, is an extremely difficult thing to get in this country. — Flann O'Brien Copy Share Image
Strange enlightenments are vouchsafed to those who seek the higher places. — Flann O'Brien Copy Share Image
“I am your soul and all your souls. When I am gone you are dead. Past humanity is not only implicit in each new man born but is contained in him,[...] All humanity from its beginning to its end is already present but the beam has not yet played beyond you! [...] You are not the top of your people's… — Flann O'Brien Copy Share
Do you know what I am going to tell you, he said with his wry mouth, a pint of plain is your only man. Notwithstanding this eulogy, I soon found that the mass of plain porter bears an unsatisfactory relation to its toxic content and I subsequently became addicted to brown stout in bottle, a drink which still remains the… — Flann O'Brien Copy Share
A wise old owl once lived in a wood, the more he heard the less he said, the less he said the more he… — Flann O'Brien Copy Share Image
“In Boston he met a pretty lady, fat and forty, but beautiful with the bloom of cash and collateral.” — Flann O'Brien Copy Share Image
“Here I had a strange idea not unworthy of de Selby. Why was Joe so disturbed at the suggestion that he had a body? What if he had a body? A body with another body inside it in turn, thousands of such bodies within each other like the skins of an onion, receding to some unimaginable ultimum? Was I in… — Flann O'Brien Copy Share
Your talk," I said, "is surely the handiwork of wisdom because not one word of it do I understand. — Flann O'Brien Copy Share Image
“Thoughts which have no chance of succeeding do not take the trouble to come into your head at all.” — Flann O'Brien Copy Share Image
When money's tight and is hard to get And your horse has also ran, When all you have is a heap of debt A… — Flann O'Brien Copy Share Image
