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| James Joyce
Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honoured by posterity because he was the last to discover America. |
| Little Boy: Mr. President, how did you become a war hero? President Kennedy: It was absolutely involuntary. They sank my boat. |
| George Bernard Shaw
I'm only a beer teetotaller, not a champagne teetotaller. |
| Oscar Wilde
No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating. |
| Larry Gogan: With what town in Britain is Shakespeare associated? Contestant: Hamlet. Notes: From the popular Larry Gogan quiz show: |
| Oscar Wilde
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything. |
| Patrick Ireland
What a pity Hell's gates are not kept by O'Flynn The surly old dog would let nobody in. Notes: Epigram on a stern Irish security guard: |
| Edna O'Brien
The vote means nothing to women. We should be armed. |
| George Bernard Shaw
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it. |
| Wilfred Sheed's
The town is as full as ever of 'characters,' all created by each other. Notes: description of Dublin |
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