Boyle Roche
Boyle Roche
Sir Boyle Roche, 1st Baronetwas an Irish politician. After a distinguished career in North America with the British Army, Roche became a member of the Irish House of Commons in 1775, generally acting in support of the viceregal government. He is better remembered for the language of his speeches than his politics—they were riddled with mixed metaphors, malapropisms and other unfortunate turns of phrase. Roche may have been Richard Brinsley Sheridan's model for Mrs Malaprop. While arguing for a bill,...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionPolitician
CountryIreland
The best way to avoid danger is to meet it plump.
Disappointment is the nurse of wisdom.
Half the lies our opponents tell about us are untrue.
All along the untrodden paths of the future, I can see the footprints of an unseen hand.
The only thing to prevent what's past is to put a stop to it before it happens.
Every pint bottle should contain a quart.
The cup of Ireland's misery has been overflowing for centuries and is not yet half full.
We should silence anyone who opposes the right to freedom of speech.
Why should we put ourselves out of our way to do anything for posterity? For what has posterity ever done for us?
At present there are such goings-on that everything is at a standstill.
P.S. If you do not receive this, of course it must have been miscarried; therefore I beg you to write and let me know.
There is no Levitical decree between nations, and on this occasion I can see neither sin nor shame in marrying our own sister.
A quart bottle should hold a quart.
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.