"Politics is the chloroform of the Irish people,……" — Oliver St. John

More Chloroform Quotes

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• Might I trouble you to open the window, for chloroform vapour does not help the palate. — Arthur Conan Doyle
• If you lived in London, where the whole system is one of false good-fellowship, and you may know a man… — George Bernard Shaw
• Every parent knows that for a kid, the car is chloroform.. — Ray Romano
• I have preferred chloroform to cancer — Charlotte Perkins Gilman
• Chloroform unfit children. Show them the same mercy that is shown beasts that are no longer fit to live. — Clarence Darrow
• Ladies of the choir, I want you to sound like twenty-two women having babies without chloroform. — John Barbirolli
• Behold me waiting—waiting for the knife.... The thick, sweet mystery of chloroform, The drunken dark, the little death-in-life.... [F]ace to… — William Ernest Henley
• Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living. — George Bernard Shaw
• All men have heard of the Mormon Bible, but few except the "elect" have seen it, or, at least, taken… — Mark Twain
• Emery cut in impatiantly, "For crying out loud. Who do you think you are, Nancy Drew?" Hey," I snapped, because… — Rosemary Clement-Moore
• Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind. — Oswald Chambers

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