Never before had I believed or suspected that I had a soul but just then I knew I had. I knew also that my soul was friendly, was my senior in years and was solely concerned for my own welfare. For convenience I called him Joe. I felt a little reassured to know that I was not altogether alone. Joe was helping me.
Flann O'BrienWe were in an entirely other field by this time and in the company of white-coloured brown-coloured cows. They watched us quietly as we made a path between them and changed their attitudes slowly as if to show us all of the maps on their fat sides. They gave us to understand that they knew us personally and thought a lot of our families and I lifted my hat to the last of them as I passed her as a sign of my appreciation.
Flann O'BrienPut a thief among honest men and they will eventually relieve him of his watch.
Flann O'BrienStichwörter: honesty dishonesty humanity-and-society theives
Well-known, alas, is the case of the poor German who was very fond of three and who made each aspect of his life a thing of triads. He went home one evening and drank three cups of tea with three lumps of sugar in each cup, cut his jugular with a razor three times and scrawled with a dying hand on a picture of his wife good-bye, good-bye, good-bye.
Flann O'BrienStichwörter: death suicide three last-lines
I was at a wake the other night and every man jack was drunk - even the corpse.
Flann O'BrienStichwörter: drink
It worries me I may tell you. I sit at home every night thinking about it and smoking endless cigarettes. If you call at my place any night after seven I will show you one of them. Quite circular. Like a hoop.
Flann O'BrienStichwörter: cigarettes-smoking
I think it is true to say only an inferior person has rights. When you hear a person talking about his rights, you may be sure he is trying to gain by dint of shouting something which he lacks ( or had and lost) by reason of some culpable deficiency in himself.
Flann O'BrienStichwörter: rights
Only serfs or ex-serfs find it necessary to draw up a statement of their 'rights'.
Flann O'BrienStichwörter: rights
Recently in mixed company...I ventured to make the claim ( not without some show of humility and modesty ) that I was the greatest living swine.
Flann O'BrienStichwörter: modesty-humility
I cannot say whether there is fur on my wife's legs for I have never seen them nor do I intend to commit myself to the folly of looking at them. In any event and in all politeness -nothing would be further from me than to insult a guest- I deem the point you have made as unimportant because there is surely nothing in the old world to prevent a deceitful kangaroo from shaving the fur from her legs, assuming she is a woman?
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