Top 58 Quotes About Daniel O'connell
#1. The poor old Duke [of Wellington]! What shall I say of him? To be sure he was born in Ireland, but being born in a stable does not make a man a horse.
Daniel O'Connell
#2. I've always been a pretty good researcher, said Bronwyn modestly.
Oh, so that we share, thought Myfanwy, but you didn't inherit the power to make people shit themselves. You've got to love the randomness of genetics.
Daniel O'Malley
#3. The interior of the animal was much as one would expect: close and dark and damp, with an odd smell. It was rather, Odette thought, like trying to enter a really popular nightclub on New Year's Eve.
Daniel O'Malley
#4. I decide a book is bad if I get angrier and angrier as I read it.
Daniel T. O'Hara
#5. Men as fit as you, when your everyday strength is gone, can draw on a mysterious reservoir of power far greater. Then it is that you can reach for the stars. That is the way champions are made. - George Yeoman Pocock O
Daniel James Brown
#6. I'm not entirely certain who arranged to have the lighting in the Rooks' offices and quarters hooked up to the Panic Lines, but it has taught me to flinch violently when a lightbulb ceases to work.
Daniel O'Malley
#7. Every religion is good - every religion is true to him who in his good caution and conscience believes it.
Daniel O'Connell
#8. If you want to switch jobs, then you can come over here right now and balance the extermination budget in London while (shuffling through papers) figuring out why the hell a two-door wardrobe in the spare room of a country house is considered to be a matter of national concern!
Daniel O'Malley
#9. Some stalkers are quite benign, but finding someone in your garden at three o'clock in the morning with a meat cleaver and a hard-on can't be much fun.
Daniel Craig
#10. And her voice cut through the noise like a scythe through a poodle.
Daniel O'Malley
#11. Teddy Roosevelt had handpicked Taft as his successor, and when Teddy Roosevelt tells you to do something, you goddamn do it or risk having him punch you in the butt so hard your poop stays inside you forever out of fear of possibly running into Roosevelt.
Daniel O'Brien
#12. Although the Irish language is connected with the many recollections that twine around the hearts of Irishmen, yet the superior utility of the English tongue, as the medium of all modern communication, is so great that I can witness without a sigh the gradual decline of the Irish language.
Daniel O'Connell
#13. Daniel Patrick Moynihan is the archetypal extremely smart person who went into politics anyway instead of doing something worthwhile for his country.
P. J. O'Rourke
#14. Raphael says, "Honor is a trait not often found in men, but when it is, it can change everything.
Daniel O'Connell
#15. Only one president in this book was a supervillain. Ladies and gentlemen, meet Chester A. Arthur, the Lex Luthor of the American Presidency.
Daniel O'Brien
#16. If Judas Iscariot were alive, and a woman, and attending formal functions, wearing this dress would still represent a disproportionate punishment for his sins." "Her
Daniel O'Malley
#18. Do you think, Daniel," she said to him, rolling over onto her back so that she was able to look out of the window while she spoke, "that we might have reached the end of our story?
Maggie O'Farrell
#19. She was tall, and dressed in the kind of casual clothes that will let you kill someone easily and won't draw attention from passersby. Khakis are good for this sort of thing.
Daniel O'Malley
#20. I don't care what you people say...we are not using a font that does not have fucking serifs." - Rook Myfanwy Thomas
Daniel O'Malley
#21. Washington is the only lunatic asylum in the world run by its own inmates.
W. Lee O'Daniel
#22. The altar of liberty totters when it is cemented only with blood
Daniel O'Connell
#23. Rook Thomas, you look different somehow."
"Well, I recently got the shit kicked out of me," she said.
"Ah, that would be it then.
Daniel O'Malley
#24. Now, do you mind telling me why you have all these guns lying around? Are you afraid the paperwork will rise up against you?'
'Oh, no. I'm going to use the guns as paperweights.
Daniel O'Malley
#25. When last we left our heroine (us), she was nine years old and about to stuff her gob with a chocolate digestive.
Daniel O'Malley
#26. No man was ever a good soldier but the man who goes into the battle determined to conquer, or not to come back from the battle field (cheers). No other principle makes a good soldier.
Daniel O'Connell
#27. If there was ever a president who could be called our Charlie Browniest, it would be Andrew Johnson.
Daniel O'Brien
#28. Martin Van Buren was a shitty guy. Not just because he was a bad president, and not just because he was pro-slavery. Van Buren was shitty in a very general sort of way. And with all that that implies.
Daniel O'Brien
#29. This is the difference between U.S. Latina/o letters and Latina/o Letters from Latin America: In the United States, writing is a business. In Latin America, writing is life and death.
Daniel Pena
#30. Yes, Minister, it turns out that there was a mysterious force that caused that plane to crash. We call it gravity.
Daniel O'Malley
#32. Face down, ass up, that's the way we both got stuck
Daniel Tosh
#33. Checquy statistics indicate that 15 percent of all men in hats are concealing horns.
Daniel O'Malley
#34. No person knows better than you do that the domination of England is the sole and blighting curse of this country. It is the incubus that sits on our energies, stops the pulsation of the nation's heart and leaves to Ireland not gay vitality but horrid the convulsions of a troubled dream.
Daniel O'Connell
#35. You look like Cinderella," said Val in awe.
"Yeah, if she'd been into bondage and had Christian Dior for a godmother.
Daniel O'Malley
#36. I'm not bipolar, I've just had a bipolar life foisted upon me.
Daniel O'Malley
#37. If Mr. Fantastic and Professor X had a baby, there would be tons of questions, but also it would be Abraham Lincoln.
Daniel O'Brien
#38. Don't worry if the name means nothing to you. Most people never hear of it at all, but it has been in existence for centuries.
Daniel O'Malley
#39. It is curious how the passing of lifetimes will change a man.
Daniel O'Malley
#40. Plus, anyone who wants to clone himself is usually an asshole. You don't want any more of those running around than absolutely necessary." "So
Daniel O'Malley
#41. Uh oh, it's beer o'clock, I think I'm sober.
How about we think this over, over a can of King Cobra?
Daniel Dumile
#42. Pow'r above pow'rs!
O heavenly eloquence!
That with the strong rein of commanding words,
Dost manage, guide, and master th' eminence
Of men's affections, more than all their swords!
Samuel Daniel
#44. That's the Rookery. It is hidden from the eyes of the populace, a secret fortress that protects the normal people even as they remain ignorant of it. It is a testament to the willingness of humanity to ignore the obvious.
Daniel O'Malley
#45. Behind me, Ingrid made a sort of muffled snorting sound. I can only assume she was choking on a breath mint. I shot her a look, hoping she hadn't heard anything, and saw she was wearing a poker face, which could only mean she'd heard everything.
Daniel O'Malley
#46. Gentlemen, you may soon have the alternative to live as slaves or die as free men
Daniel O'Connell
#48. How cruel the Penal Laws are which exclude me from a fair trial with men whom I look upon as so much my inferiors ...
Daniel O'Connell
#50. Having someone prancing around with an active chain saw while the ground shifted seemed spectacularly unwise.
Daniel O'Malley
#51. I'm going back to sleep,' she said, lying back down. 'I shall see if there's anyone interesting asleep in America.'
'That seems rather like a contradiction in terms, ma'am.'
'God, you're such a snob.
Daniel O'Malley
#52. Not that a locked door made a difference to me, since we'd all been rigorously trained in "the ladylike arts of breaking and entering,
Daniel O'Malley
#53. Having an affair with your good friend's wife while he's in an institution and your wife is in a hospital ranks somewhere between Benedict Arnold and the guy who invented Girls Gone Wild on the spectrum of Total Dickheads in American History.
Daniel O'Brien
#54. She'd neglected makeup entirely, and those damn black eyes lent her the appearance of a raccoon. A raccoon that had gotten hit in the face. After a lifetime of poor nutrition. The silence was broken only by the humming of the lift, and it felt conspicuous.
Daniel O'Malley
#55. I want to have the whole English experience. High tea, supervising manifestations, taking the waters, going to Harrods, discussing possible international conspiracies.
Daniel O'Malley
#56. We weather the vagaries of history, welcoming new rulers and bending knees to those in power, whoever they may be. We are a tool of the nation, an asset of the British Isles. Those who work within the Checquy can accomplish what no one else can, and so they are the secret arm of the kingdom.
Daniel O'Malley
#57. Daniel Ek, the C.E.O. of Spotify, is a rock star of the tech world, but he is not long on charisma.
John Seabrook
#58. I will go on quietly and slowly, but I will go on firmly, and with a certainty of success.
Daniel O'Connell
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