Irish Parliament Quotes

#1. The majority of the members of the Irish parliament are professional politicians, in the sense that otherwise they would not be given jobs minding mice at crossroads. - Author: Flann O'Brien

#2. I'm glad she's so smitten with her new huntsman boyfriend and all, but venison-wurst? Gag me with a harpsichord. - Author: Nicki Elson

#3. Truth could be violent, could strip you of dignity and hope just as quickly as a gun. - Author: Laurell K. Hamilton

#4. Forgiveness is greater than condemnation, and love stronger than hate. What is there left for us to contemplate?
-Reed Abbitt Moore- - Author: Reed Abbitt Moore

#5. One of the problems that we have in the human rights community is that special interests often forget the interests of other victims, and there's competition among victims expressions that are unnecessary. - Author: Alfred-Maurice De Zayas

#6. Culture is always on the move. - Author: Colin Woodard

#7. Well, we know that eighteen years after that solemn declaration it was disregarded, and the Irish Parliament, which lasted for five hundred years, was destroyed by the Act of Union. Gentlemen, the Act of Union was carried by force and fraud, by treachery and falsehood. - Author: John Edward Redmond

#8. Stumbling upon the next great invention in an 'ah-ha!' moment is a myth. - Author: James Dyson

#9. He plaies well that winnes.
[He plays well that wins.] - Author: George Herbert

#10. You can kill a thinker, but you can't kill the thought. - Author: Terry Hayes

#11. Faces and faces, served out like soup-plates by scullions; coarse, greedy, casual; looking in at shopwindows with pendent parcels; ogling, brushing, destroying everything, leaving even our love impure, touched now by their dirty fingers. - Author: Virginia Woolf

#12. It is in that English Parliament the chains for Ireland are forged, and any Irish patriot who goes into that forge to free Ireland will soon find himself welded into the agency of his country's subjection to England. - Author: Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa

#13. Call me an over anxious, middle-class mum, but my eight-and-a-half-year old son looks very much, to me, like he's headed for a life of crime. - Author: Arabella Weir