Bogmail Quotes

“Once we had the Protestant ascendancy,’ Cor Mogaill said. ‘Now it’s the Catholic ascendancy. And they both rule with the same mixture of self-interest and cynicism.”
― Patrick McGinley, Bogmail

“Life was so full of irony that he found himself asking if it was nothing more than a trick played on humanity by a Grand Illusionist with a black sense of humour.”
― Patrick McGinley, Bogmail

“Each drink had become a wearisome turnstile through which he had to pass to reach the next.”
― Patrick McGinley, Bogmail

“Life, he told himself, is a palimpsest of expunged experiences.”
― Patrick McGinley, Bogmail

“Poetry was something everyone could agree on because no one could be certain of what it was about.”
― Patrick McGinley, Bogmail

“life is a river and we’re all rowing against the flow. On one bank are the probabilities; on the other, the possibilities. It’s up to us rowers to choose which bank to hug.”
― Patrick McGinley, Bogmail

“he would pay his host back in his own coin.”
― Patrick McGinley, Bogmail

“The only thing that made an easy relationship between a man and a woman possible was that neither knew the true thoughts of the other.”
― Patrick McGinley, Bogmail

“He should have known that the Irish, in spite of a handful of anti-clerical writers, were by nature priest-servers.”
― Patrick McGinley, Bogmail

“Even a Marxist can misquote Scripture for his purpose.”
― Patrick McGinley, Bogmail

“As a bachelor, what can I say? The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maid. They are four things which I know not.”
― Patrick McGinley, Bogmail

“only he could enjoy one day of self-forgetfulness without having to pour a bottle of whiskey down his neck to achieve oblivion by the evening.”
― Patrick McGinley, Bogmail

“which encouraged a general sense of fellowship in the chaotic shipwreck that is old age.”
― Patrick McGinley, Bogmail

“Them that drinks bottles ruin the look of the shelves but draught is a different story—you never see the barrel going down.”
― Patrick McGinley, Bogmail

“pins and firkins and hogsheads, faucets, spiles and spigots not to mention the kilderkin, tierce and puncheon.”
― Patrick McGinley, Bogmail