Top 100 Brian O'doherty Quotes
#1. I don't care that people thought I was one way for my whole career because now that I am not attached to a team, I can have my own opinion, I can have my own voice. I can link myself to my own thought process rather than a generic message most teams try to get across.
Brian O'Driscoll
#2. Jack had never been a hypocrite until he became a father, and even now it did not come easy.
Patrick O'Brian
#4. I had massive admiration for lots of players. Richard Hill would be up there, along with Martin Johnson.
Brian O'Driscoll
#5. He had been quite unprepared for this particular blow, striking under every conceivable kind of armour, and for some minutes he could hardly bear the pain, but sat there blinking in the sun. 'Christ,' he said at last. 'Another day.
Patrick O'Brian
#6. For a moment Jack felt the strongest inclination to snatch up his little gilt chair and beat the white-faced man down with it ...
Patrick O'Brian
#7. I think training and being dedicated is very important, but one aspect that I always live by is that I enjoy myself in what I do!
Brian O'Driscoll
#9. Oh, there you are. I was afraid you had gone off to your stoats again. The carrier has brought you an ape.' 'What sort of an ape?' asked Stephen. 'A damned ill-conditioned sort of an ape.
Patrick O'Brian
#10. I slept as the person in Plutarch that ran from Marathon to Athens without a pause would have slept if he had not fallen dead, the creature.
Patrick O'Brian
#11. My wife and I have spent most of our lives in France, and we are both pretty well bilingual, my wife more purely than I, since as a little girl she went to school in French Switzerland.
Patrick O'Brian
#12. There is so much ignorant prejudice against bees in a dining-room.
Patrick O'Brian
#13. I'm especially grateful that they're here at a time when the rest of Ireland is focused on the final round of the Six Nations rugby tournament and the last match of the legendary Brian O'Driscoll.
Barack Obama
#16. (Officially the earliest age was eleven for officers' sons and thirteen for the rest, but no one took much notice of the regulation - seven-year-olds were not unknown.) Before
Patrick O'Brian
#17. Looking angrily at the wombat: and a moment later, 'Come now, Stephen, this is coming it pretty high: your brute is eating my hat.'
'So he is, too,' said Dr. Maturin. 'But do not be perturbed, Jack; it will do him no harm, at all. His digestive processes
Patrick O'Brian
#18. There is no point winning the semi if you don't win the final. It's as simple as that. No one will remember a big semifinal if you lose the final, so you have to do it all again.
Brian O'Driscoll
#19. Better than a shove in the eye with a dry stick. [- Jack]
Patrick O'Brian
#20. Lord Nelson's maxim 'Never mind manoeuvres: always go straight at 'em.
Patrick O'Brian
#21. Oh, the odious wench.How I wish I were rid of her. I have always loathed women, from clew to earring; hook, line and sinker; root and branch.I always said this would happen, you remember; I was against it from the start. Damn it for a flibbertigibbet, the hussy.
Patrick O'Brian
#22. The Navy speaks in symbols and you may suit what meaning you choose to the words.
Patrick O'Brian
#24. The modesty and diffidence that the penniless, unemployed Standish had brought aboard were now no longer to be seen; and the assurance of a monthly income and a settled position had developed a displeasing and often didactic loquacity. He was also, of course, incompetent.
Patrick O'Brian
#25. O, she said, a woman in love can't afford to be proud. He must be made to see, he must be made to come back. And I must do it myself, no matter how silly it looks.
Brian Moore
#26. Most men find [peace] entirely unlike what they had expected - like love...
Patrick O'Brian
#27. After all a book can be represented as a conversation with one's demon.
Patrick O'Brian
#28. A freewheeling mind can conceive a virtually infinite number of sequences, but just how that mind picks out and stores those that may perhaps be used later to deal with a given tension, a given situation, is far beyond my understanding.
Patrick O'Brian
#29. About my books, that's all that I think the public has, in its normal way, to know. My private life is, by definition, private.
Patrick O'Brian
#31. Why there you are, Stephen,' cried Jack. 'You are come home, I find.'
That is true,' said Stephen with an affectionate look: he prized statements of this kind in Jack.
Patrick O'Brian
#32. Oh for women at sea to obviate the eternal crosscat-harpings,' he said to himself, 'to do away with the grumlinfuttocks, and to inject a little civilization, even of an equivocal nature, even at the risk of moral deviation.
Patrick O'Brian
#33. Where there was no equality there was no companionship: when a man was obliged to say 'Yes, sir,' his agreement was of no worth even if it happened to be true.
Patrick O'Brian
#34. Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad.
Brian O'Driscoll
#36. I have ambitions to set records which will be hard to chase down, like getting more than 100 caps for Ireland.
Brian O'Driscoll
#37. I'm not privy to the English set-up, but at the academies in Ireland, there is a huge focus on the weights room as opposed to whether they can throw a 10-metre pass on the run. They should be rugby players becoming athletes, not athletes becoming rugby players.
Brian O'Driscoll
#38. It all gave a pleasant illusion of eternity, this quiet sailing under a perfect sky towards a horizon perpetually five miles ahead, never nearer.
Patrick O'Brian
#39. The Polynesian guys are pretty strong without going to the gym.
Brian O'Driscoll
#41. I have never written for an audience. On the other hand I do not write merely to please myself.
Patrick O'Brian
#42. Growing up, I supported Manchester United, and my hero was Mark Hughes.
Brian O'Driscoll
#43. I get burnt in the sun, so there's no point me getting pecs for when I take my shirt off in the summer.
Brian O'Driscoll
#44. Puddings, my dear sir?' cried Graham.
Puddings. We trice 'em athwart the starboard gumbrils, when sailing by and large.
Patrick O'Brian
#45. Martin was a thoroughly amiable man, a man of wide reading, but when he came to write he mounted upon a pair of stilts, unusually lofty stilts, and staggered along at a most ungracious pace, with an occasional awkward lurch into colloquialism, giving a strikingly false impression of himself.
Patrick O'Brian
#46. all that wretched schoolmastering.' 'On some it acts like a poison, making them unfit for the society of grown men.
Patrick O'Brian
#47. I've been a professional rugby player all my life; I don't really know anything different.
Brian O'Driscoll
#49. Trollops are capital things in port, but will not do at sea.
Patrick O'Brian
#50. I've always found when I was captain when other people were doing the talking for me, I didn't need to say as much, and when I did say one or two things, people tended to listen all the more.
Brian O'Driscoll
#51. The victory is always sweeter ... winning things with friends.
Brian O'Driscoll
#52. We are always the most violent against those whom we have injured.
Patrick O'Brian
#53. Since then he has said nothing and although from time to time I have thrown out what I hope were delicate hints and suggestions he has not seemed to notice them; and with a man Lucifer could not hold a book, bell or candle to for pride I cannot raise the subject directly.
Patrick O'Brian
#54. You go into the Lions camp with preconceived ideas about players and teams and then find guys are actually very different, and the beauty of the Lions is that all those characters are moulded into it. I find that exciting.
Brian O'Driscoll
#55. Team sports are very important for shaping personalities. It's important that kids understand the mentality behind playing team sports and playing for one another and playing with friends.
Brian O'Driscoll
#56. Other people's marriages are a perpetual source of amazement.
Patrick O'Brian
#57. I know of few men over 50 that seem to me entirely human, virtually none who has long exercised authority.
Patrick O'Brian
#59. I have never yet known a man admit that he was either rich or asleep.
Patrick O'Brian
#60. One lives in the very present moment; lives intently. There is no urge to be doing: being is the highest good.
Patrick O'Brian
#62. What's wrong with (Captain) Jack Aubrey?"
"Everything, since he has a command and I have not.
Patrick O'Brian
#63. Nelson once said that love of his country served him for a greatcoat.
Patrick O'Brian
#64. Certainly, nothing would stop me coming home for Christmas, if I can. But I've worked a lot in theatre, and in theatre in New York, we work Christmas Day a lot of the time as well.
Brian F. O'Byrne
#65. Go and see whether the Doctor is about,' said Jack, 'and if he is, ask him to look in, when he has a moment.'
Which he is in the fish-market, turning over some old-fashioned lobsters. No. I tell a lie. That is him, falling down the companion-way and cursing in foreign.
Patrick O'Brian
#66. Any innocent pleasure is a real good: there are not so many of them.
Patrick O'Brian
#67. What is a potto?"
"It is a little furry creature that sleeps all day with its head between its legs and then walks about very, very slowly all night, high in the trees, slowly eating leaves and creeping up on birds as they roost and eating them too.
Patrick O'Brian
#68. Timmy Horan was a childhood hero. He was a great distributor, elusive, good stepper, very physical, defensively very sound. What a rounded player.
Brian O'Driscoll
#69. Surely man in general is born to be oppressed or solitary, if he is to be fully human;
Patrick O'Brian
#70. Most actors here go to the West Coast; I ended up going to Ireland. My buddies who left drama school, they had this arrogance - 'We don't want to typecast ourselves.' But I said, 'I want to do Irish parts. That's the thing that's gonna give me the leg up.'
Brian F. O'Byrne
#71. If you can beat New Zealand, then you're probably going to win the World Cup.
Brian O'Driscoll
#72. Man is a deeply illogical being, and must be ruled illogically. Whatever that frigid prig Bentham may say, there are innumerable motives that have nothing to do with utility.
Patrick O'Brian
#73. Of course she will put on a cap,' said Sophie, with a pitying look. 'How could she possibly receive strange gentlemen without a cap? But her hair must be dressed under it.
Patrick O'Brian
#76. I enjoy training so much, sometimes I don't want it to stop.
Brian O'Driscoll
#77. But you know as well as I, patriotism is a word; and one that generally comes to mean either my country, right or wrong, which is infamous, or my country is always right, which is imbecile.
Patrick O'Brian
#78. The great thing about playing team sport is you win and lose together, and the pain is never as bad when you share it.
Brian O'Driscoll
#79. Clap on with both hands, sir - never say die - one more heave and we're home, safe and dry.
Patrick O'Brian
#80. Your name or what you've done on the rugby pitch is not going to carry you through for the rest of your life. I realise I'm going to have to eventually do something else, and that does frighten me a little bit.
Brian O'Driscoll
#81. I've never set out to seduce my reader. I don't see him at all clearly.
Patrick O'Brian
#82. No man born of woman has ever understood spoken Portuguese.
Patrick O'Brian
#84. When we drink, we get drunk. When we get drunk, we fall asleep. When we fall asleep, we commit no sin. When we commit no sin, we go to heaven. Sooooo, let's all get drunk and go to heaven!
Brian O'Rourke
#85. I wonder, James, whether it is not too easy for a rich man to despise money
Patrick O'Brian
#86. One thing I learnt early on my career is that personal gratification takes second place.
Brian O'Driscoll
#87. Nothing do I know of the law at all. But I do remember that the Bible likens human justice to a woman's unclean rag - quasi pannus menstruate - and I have little faith in truth as an immediate safeguard, in this world.
Patrick O'Brian
#88. The big upside to being captain is it's a huge honour, but the downside is that there is definitely extra pressure.
Brian O'Driscoll
#89. What was independence but a word? What did any form of government matter? Freedom: to do what?
Patrick O'Brian
#90. If you start thinking about retirement in six months' time, you're already there.
Brian O'Driscoll
#91. In your mid-20s, you think you'll go on for eternity. Then a point comes where you realise that's not going to be the case.
Brian O'Driscoll
#92. But it did not much care for hunting, and then like so many geldings it spent much of its time mourning for its lost stones: a discontented horse.
Patrick O'Brian
#93. Should I feel better if I were to vomit?' asked Jagiello. 'I doubt it,' said Stephen. 'It has done nothing for the Colonel.
Patrick O'Brian
#94. Of course I do know it is the French who are so wicked; but there are all these people who keep coming and going - the Austrians, the Spaniards, the Russians. Pray, are the Russians good now? It would be very shocking - treason no doubt - to put the wrong people in my prayers.
Patrick O'Brian
#96. Likings arise when one has no earthly reason for liking - the most wildly improbable marriages and uncommon friendship.
Patrick O'Brian
#98. There are strict rules in these matters, I find.' 'There were strict rules in the arena, too. Every gladiator had to have a sword, oh yes; but if it was Caligula he was to fight with, the sword was made of lead.
Patrick O'Brian
#100. She is remarkably dry,' he said to Stephen who, preferring to die in the open, had crept up on deck,
Patrick O'Brian
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