In parliament, defending the proposed union of Ireland with Great Britain.
[Barrington, Jonah, Personal sketches and recollections of his own times, Chapter XVII https://archive.org/details/personalsketche06barrgoog]
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“[…I] answer boldly in the affirmative with an emphatic No!”
Occasion unknown.
[Falkiner, C. Litton, Studies in Irish History and Biography, mainly of the Eighteenth Century, 1902, Longmans, Green, and Co., New York, Sir Boyle Roche, p.237]
“A quart bottle should hold a quart.”
The title of a bill in the Irish House of Commons. Often misquoted as "a pint bottle should hold a quart."
[Falkiner, C. Litton, Studies in Irish History and Biography, mainly of the Eighteenth Century, 1902, Longmans, Green, and Co., New York, Sir Boyle Roche, p.230]
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In disparagement of the French revolution and its practitioners.
[Barrington, Jonah, Personal sketches and recollections of his own times, Chapter XVII https://archive.org/details/personalsketche06barrgoog]
“…it is impossible I could have been in two places at once, unless I were a bird.”
In parliament, alluding to Jevon’s play, The Devil of a Wife.
Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable http://www.bartleby.com/81/14405.html
“…as Sir Boyle Roche would say, like the last rose of summer…”
[Disraeli, Benjamin, The Young Duke, 1831]
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Context: Herodotus is not more indisputably the father of history than is Sir Boyle Roche the father of Bulls. No doubt there were makers of bulls before his day, even as brave men lived before Agamemnon; but they are not remembered, and if their bulls have survived them they are credited to Sir Boyle by a posterity generously forgiving and forgetful of his famous indictment.
In a debate in the Irish House of Commons on the vote of a grant which was recommended by Sir John Parnell, Chancellor of the Exchequer, as one not likely to be felt burdensome for many years to come, it was observed in reply that the House had no right to load posterity with a debt for what could in no degree operate to their advantage. This quotation was Sir Boyle's response.
[Barrington, Jonah, Personal sketches and recollections of his own times, Chapter XVII https://archive.org/details/personalsketche06barrgoog]
“The best way to avoid danger is to meet it plump.”
In parliament.
[Falkiner, C. Litton, Studies in Irish History and Biography, mainly of the Eighteenth Century, 1902, Longmans, Green, and Co., New York, Sir Boyle Roche, p.229]
“I hope, my lord, if you ever come within a mile of my house that you will stay there all night.”
In a letter.
[Falkiner, C. Litton, Studies in Irish History and Biography, mainly of the Eighteenth Century, 1902, Longmans, Green, and Co., New York, Sir Boyle Roche, p.230]
Arguing for the habeas corpus suspension bill in Ireland.
[Barrington, Jonah, Personal sketches and recollections of his own times, Chapter XVII https://archive.org/details/personalsketche06barrgoog]
[Falkiner, C. Litton, Studies in Irish History and Biography, mainly of the Eighteenth Century, 1902, Longmans, Green, and Co., New York, Sir Boyle Roche, p.237]
