Why be a dumb dud? Do your friends shun you? Do people cross the street when they see you approaching? Do they run up the steps of strange houses, pretend they live there and force their way into the hall… — Flann O'Brien Copy Share Image
I mean to say, whether a yarn is tall or small I like to hear it well told. I like to meet a man that can take in hand to tell a story and not make a balls of it… — 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… — Flann O'Brien Copy Share Image
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 Image
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?… — Flann O'Brien Copy Share Image
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
![“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…” quote by Flann O'Brien](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f2a/flann-o-brien-6916_soul_i-am-your-soul-and-all-your-souls-when-i_105303.jpg)
