Parnell Quotes

• J. Edgar Hoover, J. Bracken Lee, J. Parnell Thomas, J. Paul Getty -- you can always tell a shithead by that initial initial.

  Edward Abbey

  J Edgar Hoover, Shitheads, Initials

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.22, RosettaBooks

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• Anyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around.

  Adam McKay

  Two, Guy, World

  "‘SNL’ stars in Comedy Central sitcom" by Michael Schneider, variety.com. March 14, 2010.

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• We are no petty people. We are one of the great stocks of Burke; we are the people of Swift, the people of Emmet, the people of Parnell. We have created most of the modern literature of this country. We have created the best of its political intelligence.

  William Butler Yeats

  Country, People, Political

  Speech in Seanad on government measure outlawing divorce, 11 June 1925

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• The Irish are people who will never have leaders, for at the great moment they always desert them. They have produced one skeleton--Parnell--never a man.

  James Joyce

  Men, Skeletons, People

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• But stories that live longest
  Are sung above the glass,
  And Parnell loved his country
  And Parnell loved his lass.

  William Butler Yeats

  Country, Glasses, Stories

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.265, Wordsworth Editions

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