All Flann O'Brien Quotes
- I suppose we all have our recollections of our earlier holidays, all bristling with horror. All
- He went home one evening and drank three cups of tea with three lumps of sugar in each cup, cut his jugular with a razor… Cup
- The dusk was performing its customary intransitive operation of "gathering". Customary
- Hell goes round and round. In shape it is circular, and by nature it is interminable, repetitive, and nearly unbearable. Circular
- The majority of the members of the Irish parliament are professional politicians, in the sense that otherwise they would not be given jobs minding mice… Crossroads
- 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… Balls
- Past humanity is not only implicit in each new man born but is contained in him. Humanity is an ever-widening spiral and life is the… All
- The first beginnings of wisdom...is to ask questions but never to answer any. Answer
- Why should anyone steal a watch when he could steal a bicycle? Anyone
- Waiting for the German verb is surely the ultimate thrill. Editing
- The only result my father got for his money was the certainty that his son had laid faultlessly the foundation of a system of heavy… Always Relied
- A woman doesn't care if she hasn't a stomach, provided she looks as if she hasn't. Care
- It is clear enough that you are making some distinction in what you said, that there is some nicety of terminology in your words. I… Clear
- After a time," said old Mathers disregarding me, "I mercifully perceived the errors of my ways and the unhappy destination I would reach unless I… Accumulate
- Questions are like the knocks of beggarmen, and should not be minded. Funny
- The continual cracking of your feet on the road makes a certain quantity of road come up into you. When a man dies they say… Along
- Having placed in my mouth sufficient bread for three minutes' chewing, I withdrew my powers of sensual perception and retired into the privacy of my… Activities
- Descartes spent far too much time in bed subject to the persistent hallucination that he was thinking. You are not free from a similar disorder. Bed
- Your talk," I said, "is surely the handiwork of wisdom because not one word of it do I understand. Handiwork
- I saw that my witticism was unperceived and quietly replaced it in the treasury of my mind. Mind
- I am completely half afraid to think. Afraid
- 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… Addicted
- 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 PINT… All
- Strange enlightenments are vouchsafed to those who seek the higher places. Enlightenment
- When a man sleeps, he is steeped and lost in a limp toneless happiness: awake he is restless, tortured by his body and the illusion… Awake