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

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.

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

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.

It's what happens. You love, then you lose, then you die. Even if you survive, you die.

Wisdom cannot be compared with a gold.

If you've got to my age, you've probably had your heart broken many times. So it's not that difficult to unpack a bit of grief from some little corner of your heart and cry over it.

The English are probably the most tolerant, least religious people on earth.

Use money and love people. Don't love money and use people.

War was a hellish, horrible hideous thing - too horrible and hideous to happen in the twentieth century between civilised nations.

The Khaddar of my conception is that handspun cloth entirely takes the place of mill cloth in India.

A drug is a substance which, if injected into a rabbit, produces a paper.

Good startups usually take 10 years.

If you don't love the poor, you don't know what God's done for you.