“Always ask any questions that are to be asked and never answer any. Turn everything you hear to your own advantage. Always carry a repair outfit. Take left turns as much as possible. Never apply your front brake first. ‘If… — 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
Moderation, we find, is an extremely difficult thing to get in this country. — Flann O'Brien Copy Share
Strange enlightenments are vouchsafed to those who seek the higher places. — Flann O'Brien Copy Share
“I am your soul and all your souls. When I am gone you are dead. Past humanity is not only implicit in each new… — 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.… — 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
“In Boston he met a pretty lady, fat and forty, but beautiful with the bloom of cash and collateral.” — Flann O'Brien Copy Share
“Here I had a strange idea not unworthy of de Selby. Why was Joe so disturbed at the suggestion that he had a body?… — 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
“Thoughts which have no chance of succeeding do not take the trouble to come into your head at all.” — Flann O'Brien Copy Share
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
A woman doesn't care if she hasn't a stomach, provided she looks as if she hasn't. — Flann O'Brien Copy Share
“With these words there came the rending scream of a shattered stirk and an angry troubling of the branches as the poor madman percolated… — Flann O'Brien Copy Share
