82 Quotes by Flann O'Brien

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.

A man who takes into consideration the feelings of others even when arranging the manner of his own death shows a nobility of character which compels the admiration of all classes.

For my sustenance at night,the whole that my hands can gleanfrom the gloom of the oak-gloomed oaks--the herbs and the plenteous fruits...

I was at a wake the other night and every man jack was drunk - even the corpse.

Put a thief among honest men and they will eventually relieve him of his watch.

I am, as you know, an Irish person and yield to gnomon in my admiration and respect for the old land.

If a man stands before a mirror and sees in it his reflections what he sees is not a true reproduction of himself but a picture of himself when he was a younger man.

You mean that because I have no name I cannot die and that you cannot be held answerable for death even if you kill me?

Moderation, we find, is an extremely difficult thing to get in this country.