"The best way to avoid danger is to meet it plump."

“It would surely be better … to give up not only a part, but, if necessary, even the whole, of our constitution, to preserve the remainder!”

“There is no Levitical decree between nations, and on this occasion I can see neither sin nor shame in marrying our own sister.”

“...it is impossible I could have been in two places at once, unless I were a bird.”

“I hope, my lord, if you ever come within a mile of my house that you will stay there all night.”

“...as Sir Boyle Roche would say, like the last rose of summer...”

“answer boldly in the affirmative with an emphatic No!”