At present there are such goings-on that everything is at a standstill.

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.

All along the untrodden paths of the future, I can see the footprints of an unseen hand.

Half the lies our opponents tell about us are untrue.

Disappointment is the nurse of wisdom.

Every pint bottle should contain a quart.

Ireland and England are like two sisters; I would have them embrace like one brother.

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 cup of Ireland's misery has been overflowing for centuries and is not yet half full.

The best way to avoid danger is to meet it plump.

I hunger for your sleek laugh and your hands the color of a furious harvest. I want to eat the sunbeams flaring in your beauty.

The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

My faith in humanity leads me to believe that people are looking for something more elevating than the sordid details of the intimate aspects of one's personal life.

What is valuable is not new, and what is new is not valuable.

May cricket continue to flourish and spread its wings. The world can only be richer for it.

I long for the day when advertising will become a business for a grown man.

Real art must always involve some witchcraft.

I like people who have a sense of individuality. I love expression and anything awkward and imperfect, because that’s natural and that’s real.

I'm not afraid of dying, I'm afraid of living.

The degree to which you resist is the degree to which you are free.