Boyle Roche quotes:

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.

We should silence anyone who opposes the right to freedom of speech.

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

While I write this letter, I have a pistol in one hand and a sword in the other.

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

Half the lies our opponents tell about us are untrue.

Every pint bottle should contain a quart.

I answer in the affirmative with an emphatic 'No.'

Herodotus is not more indisputably the father of history than is Sir Boyle Roche the father of Bulls. No doubt there were makers of bulls before his day, even as brave men lived before Agamemnon; but they are not remembered, and if their bulls have survived them they are credited to Sir Boyle by a posterity generously forgiving and forgetful of his famous indictment.

Why should we put ourselves out of our way to do anything for posterity? For what has posterity ever done for us?

A quart bottle should hold a quart.

Disappointment is the nurse of wisdom.

How can I be in two places at once, unless I were a bird?

I answer in the affirmative with an emphatic 'No.'"

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

Single misfortunes never come alone, and the greatest of all national calamities is generally followed by one greater.

There is no Levitical decree between nations, and on this occasion I can see neither sin nor shame in marrying our own sister.

P.S. If you do not receive this, of course it must have been miscarried; therefore I beg you to write and let me know.

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

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

The only thing to prevent what's past is to put a stop to it before it happens.

A man could not be in two places at the same time unless he were a bird.