Assassinate me you may; intimidate me you cannot.

- John Philpot Curran

My dear doctor, I am surprised to hear you say that I am coughing very badly, as I have been practising all night.

- John Philpot Curran

His smile is like the silver plate on a coffin.

- John Philpot Curran

The first inventions of commerce are, like those of all other arts, cunning and short-sighted.

- John Philpot Curran

Evil prospers when good men do nothing.

- John Philpot Curran

But as in wailing there's nought availing, And Death unfailing will strike the blow, Then for that reason, and for a season, Let us be merry before w…

- John Philpot Curran

I have never yet heard of a murderer who was not afraid of a ghost.

- John Philpot Curran

When I can't talk sense, I talk metaphor.

- John Philpot Curran

Madame de Stael talks herself into a beauty.

- John Philpot Curran