William Maginn

Quotes

• “You've heard, I suppose, long ago,    How the snakes, in a manner most antic, He march'd to the County Mayo,    And trundled them into th' Atlantic. Hence not to use water for drink    The people of Ireland determine; With mighty good reason, I think,    Since St Patrick has fill'd it with vermin,              And vipers, and other such stuff.”
• “Marrying girls is a nice matter always; for they are as cautious as crows plundering a corn-field. ... I don't myself, I profess, upon principle, see any objection to marrying a widow. ... If a woman, however, has had more than three husbands, she poisons them: avoid her.”
• “Tap claret tastes best out of a pewter pot.”
• “Every popular preacher is a goose.”
• “Poetry is like claret, one enjoys it only when it is very new, or when it is very old.”
• “There is no such thing as female genius.”

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