Character Quote by Flann O'Brien

“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

Rome wasn't built in A.D.

— Flann O'Brien

Moderation, we find, is an extremely difficult thing to get in this country.

— Flann O'Brien

Strange enlightenments are vouchsafed to those who seek the higher places.

— Flann O'Brien

“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

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

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

“In Boston he met a pretty lady, fat and forty, but beautiful with the bloom of cash and collateral.”

— Flann O'Brien

“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

Your talk," I said, "is surely the handiwork of wisdom because not one word of it do I understand.

— Flann O'Brien

“Thoughts which have no chance of succeeding do not take the trouble to come into your head at all.”

— Flann O'Brien

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