1.
His smile is like the silver plate on a coffin.
John Philpot Curran
2.
It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become prey to the active. The conditions upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime, and the punishment of his guilt.
John Philpot Curran
3.
I have never yet heard of a murderer who was not afraid of a ghost.
John Philpot Curran
4.
My dear doctor, I am surprised to hear you say that I am coughing very badly, as I have been practising all night.
John Philpot Curran
5.
Evil prospers when good men do nothing.
John Philpot Curran
6.
Assassinate me you may; intimidate me you cannot.
John Philpot Curran
7.
But as in wailing there's nought availing, And Death unfailing will strike the blow, Then for that reason, and for a season, Let us be merry before we go.
John Philpot Curran
8.
To brand man with infamy, and let him free, is an absurdity that peoples our forests with assassins.
John Philpot Curran
9.
Madame de Stael talks herself into a beauty.
John Philpot Curran
10.
The first inventions of commerce are, like those of all other arts, cunning and short-sighted.
John Philpot Curran
11.
When I can't talk sense, I talk metaphor.
John Philpot Curran
