William Maginn Quotes
1794–1842 Ireland
William Maginn (10 July 1794 – 21 August 1842) was an Irish journalist and writer.
- Ireland
- Journalists
- Novelists
27 quotes
Cold pig's face is one of the best things in the world for breakfast.
When a man is drunk, it is no matter upon what he has got drunk.
In literature and in love we generally begin in bad taste.
No cigar-smoker ever committed suicide.
Poetry is like claret, one enjoys it only when it is very new, or when it is very old.
It is singular that scarcely any tailor who can make a coat well, can make pantaloons.
In order to know what cod really is, you must eat it in Newfoundland.
He whose friendship is worth having, must hate and be hated.
Hock cannot be too much, claret cannot be too little, iced.
Much is to be said in favour of toasted cheese for supper.
Tap claret tastes best out of a pewter pot.
There is no such thing as female genius.
The wight can tell
A melancholy and a merry tale
Of field, and fight, and chief, and lady gay.
We moderns are perhaps inferior to our ancestors in nothing more than in our epitaphs.
People may talk as they like, but after all, London is London.
The finest of all times for flirting is a wedding. They are all agog, poor things!
Ass-milk, they say, tastes exceedingly like woman's. No wonder.
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: William Maginn (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.