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Boyle Roche Quotes (1736-1807)
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About Boyle Roche
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] answer boldly in the affirmative with an emphatic No!”
“...it is impossible I could have been in two places at once, unless I were a bird.”
“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!”
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“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.”
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About Boyle Roche
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.