Boyle Roche Quotes
- Disappointment is the nurse of wisdom.
- Half the lies our opponents tell about us are untrue.
- All along the untrodden paths of the future, I can see the footprints of an unseen hand.
- Ireland and England are like two sisters; I would have them embrace like one brother.
- The only thing to prevent what's past is to put a stop to it before it happens.
- How can I be in two places at once, unless I were a bird?
- Every pint bottle should contain a quart.
- The cup of Ireland's misery has been overflowing for centuries and is not yet half full.
- We should silence anyone who opposes the right to freedom of speech.
- Why should we put ourselves out of our way to do anything for posterity? For what has posterity ever done for us?
- The best way to avoid danger is to meet it plump.
- At present there are such goings-on that everything is at a standstill.
- P.S. If you do not receive this, of course it must have been miscarried; therefore I beg you to write and let me know.
- 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.
- While I write this letter, I have a pistol in one hand and a sword in the other.
- I answer in the affirmative with an emphatic No.