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1736–1807 Ireland
Sir Boyle Roche, 1st Baronet (October 1736 – 5 June 1807) was an Irish politician, famed for his highly ornamented and often inaccurate speech, which often included amusing mixed metaphors and malapropisms.
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I hope, my lord, if you ever come within a mile of my house that you will stay there all night.
Why we should put ourselves out of our way to do anything for posterity, for what has posterity ever done for us?
The best way to avoid danger is to meet it plump.
There is no Levitical decree between nations, and on this occasion I can see neither sin nor shame in marrying our own sister.
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!
...it is impossible I could have been in two places at once, unless I were a bird.
[...I] answer boldly in the affirmative with an emphatic No!
[...they] would cut us to mincemeat, and throw our bleeding heads on that table to stare us in the face.
The title of a bill in the Irish House of Commons. Often misquoted as "a pint bottle should hold a quart."
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